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- 151 Reborn Genius Pharmacist Leads Her Family to Buy a Courtyard House 天才药师重生带领全家买四合院 A feel-good period novel about a powerful woman putting scum in their place. Su Wanwan, a genius top-tier pharmacist, is reborn after an explosion in her laboratory and transmigrates to 1982. Her family is dirt poor, they don’t have enough to eat, her parents are timid, and her grandmother is domineering. As soon as Su Wanwan wakes up, she takes on her awful relatives and immediately splits from the family. But she’s left with a run-down house and no food. Looking at the endless hills, Su Wanwan 1.6kReads9.0Score24014d adds
- 152 Siheyuan: From the Start, My Travel Frog Makes the Vermin Weep 四合院：开局旅行青蛙，坑哭禽兽 Ye Qing transmigrated to a courtyard compound. After refusing Qin Huairu’s attempt to guilt-trip him, he was shunned and ridiculed by everyone. Then he obtained a travel frog System, and his life got better by the day. The scoundrels in the compound grew jealous. Qin Huairu: “I wish I’d married Ye Qing.” Yi Zhonghai: “I should’ve gotten on Ye Qing’s good side sooner.” Facing the lot of them, Ye Qing set himself a modest goal: first, he’d swindle every courtyard house out of its owner. 430Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 153 Siheyuan: My Uncle Is Yi Zhonghai 四合院：我大舅是易中海 He transmigrates to a small mountain village in the 1950s. In an era of shortages and hunger, he plans to live comfortably by hunting. Then Ning Yi’s maternal uncle comes to the village. This uncle, whom Ning Yi has never met, turns out to be Yi Zhonghai. Only then does he realize that this world is far more complicated than he thought. 4kReads6.1Score14714d adds
- 154 Jia Dongxu, I’m Qin Huairu’s Backer! 贾东旭，我是秦淮茹的靠山！ [Light System + Courtyard Drama + Feel-Good Story + Fanfiction + Low Conflict + Family Bonds] Jia Xu, an orphan who couldn’t even afford to get married in the modern world, accidentally transmigrates into the TV drama Love in the Courtyard, taking over Jia Dongxu’s body. He changes Qin Huai’s difficult life as a lonely widow with no one to rely on, and in turn changes the fate of everyone in the Jia family and the lives of the entire courtyard. Set in a turbulent era, the story reflects the posi 14.5kReads7.9Score88514d adds
- 155 Siheyuan: A Life of Vigor, Starting at Eighteen 四合院：从18岁开始的彪悍人生 Period drama with a combative edge + family squabbles + high-tech farming + multiple worlds, one heroine At eighteen, fresh out of high school, you've got to let loose while you're young, or before you know it, you'll be old! In this great era full of opportunities to strive and struggle, I have to do my part and get involved! You don't want me to bring up my younger siblings, marry a beautiful wife, and live a good life of my own? Then don't blame me for treating you all like Japanese devils! H 3kReads5.9Score10414d adds
- 156 Siheyuan: Watching Life with a Smile 四合院：笑看人生 After Lin Qing unexpectedly arrives in the world of Love in the Courtyard, he gets help from a rather unreliable System. He trades witty barbs with the courtyard’s scoundrels, rages at Yi Zhonghai, beats up Liu Haizhong, kicks He Yuzhu, and enjoys life among all kinds of beautiful women! 123Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 157 Siheyuan: I Talk Yi Zhonghai into Breaking Jia Dongxu's Leg 四合院之怂恿易中海打断贾东旭腿 As the transmigration craze takes hold, our protagonist Gu Yiming is reluctantly transported to the courtyard-house world of the 1950s. Like all transmigrators, his parents are sacrificed from the start, leaving him on the verge of graduating from technical secondary school. With his parents gone, the moral paragons Uncle Yi and the other two neighborhood elders hold a residents' meeting, ordering him to give up his family's three rooms and hand over his father's compensation money to support th 720Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 158 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Play Jia Dongxu 四合院：开局扮演贾东旭 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 2.8kReads8.0Score10014d adds
- 159 Period: Transmigrating as Jia Dongxu and Binding the Slacking System 年代：穿越贾东旭，绑定摸鱼系统 [Siheyuan + period drama crossover + low on aggression + Qin Huairu + taking on bullies + slow-burn power fantasy] Modern young man Jia Dongxu gets incredibly lucky and becomes the 1951 version of Jia Dongxu, the most despised mama's boy in the compound. He can't carry a load or lift a finger, and nobody in the compound thinks he'll amount to anything. “That wastrel Jia Dongxu will starve to death before long!” But Jia Dongxu isn't worried in the least. The newly bound [Slacker System] is glowin 2kReads7.1Score11414d adds
- 160 Game for Peace: Li Yunlong's Struck It Rich! 和平精英：咱李云龙发财了！ Long Xingbang is a modern college student. He transmigrates into the Battle of Cangyunling and becomes Li Yunlong's guard platoon leader. He awakens the “Peacekeeper Elite Battle System”: as long as the Chinese forces defeat the invading army in battle, he can level up the System and unlock more features. Let's see how Long Xingbang charges across the Anti-Japanese War battlefield with style. 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Siheyuan: A Bloody Cycle of Reincarnation 四合院之血色轮回 [Siheyuan + Revenge + Fighting the Yard Bullies + Reborn in a Bygone Era + Comedy + Pocket Dimension (used sparingly)] On a freezing day in the winter of 1949, beneath an overpass in Beijing, icy winds sliced through everything in their path. An old man curled up in a snowdrift, his soul freezing inch by inch as the wind cut through him. As he hovered on the brink of death, his life flashed before his eyes like frames from a movie. “Silly Zhu, your dad ran off!” “Silly Zhu, you can’t be so selfi 9.3kReads7.5Score39914d adds
- 162 1960: I'm a Miracle Doctor in the Siheyuan 1960：我在四合院当神医 In the winter of 1960, Li Chengfeng transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard and becomes the nephew of one of its residents. Invited by his second uncle to the capital, Sijiu City, he discovers that his uncle has been bullied right in his own home. Li Chengfeng strikes back. First, he kicks the old Jia family out of his uncle's home and makes them pay their back rent. Then he joins the steel rolling mill... While all the beasts are still plotting how to target Li Chengfeng, he has a 6.9kReads6.6Score14814d adds
- 163 Siheyuan: You Dare Kick Me? Don't Blame Me for Playing Dirty 四合院，敢踹我，别怪我下手黑了 After transmigrating into a Siheyuan, the protagonist finds that the original owner's family consists of just one person, who is also seriously ill. The Jia family, Yi Zhonghai, and others come to prey on the household. After the protagonist transmigrates into the body, he first sends Jia Dongxu to his death. Yi Zhonghai, Silly Zhu, Qin Huairu, and everyone else each get what they deserve… 7.2kReads6.1Score25814d adds
- 164 If You Guilt-Trip Me in the Siheyuan, I’ll Slap You Across the Face 四合院道德绑架我我就抽你耳光 In his previous life, Silly Zhu was driven out of the courtyard by Banggeng and his two sisters. With not a penny to his name, he couldn't even afford to call his son, He Xiao. He froze to death beneath a bridge, and stray dogs gnawed on his corpse while no one came to claim it. Regret filled He Yuzhu's heart in his final moments, and that deep resentment brought him back reborn. With a System at his side, will He Yuzhu still let the Qin widow's family take advantage of him? Find out how he live 5.7kReads5.9Score19414d adds
- 165 Siheyuan: Returning from Wudang Mountain 四合院：从武当山归来 Transmigrating as Wang Ye, a Taoist priest from Wudang Mountain, he masters martial arts and traditional Chinese medicine from childhood. After descending the mountain, he becomes a factory doctor and moves into a courtyard full of villains. From then on, he toys with the courtyard's troublemakers, thrives in love, and climbs the career ladder. Life couldn't be better! 632Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Gets Killed from the Start, and Somehow It's My Fault? 四合院开局傻柱被杀怪我了？ Qin Fen is reborn in the Courtyard Siheyuan and awakens the System of Good Deeds Rewarded. As long as he does good deeds, he can grow stronger. But on the second day after being reborn, he gets caught up in a murder case. Silly Zhu is dead. He beat Qin Fen the day before, then died that very night. Everyone suspects Qin Fen killed him. Qin Fen feels more wronged than Dou E. He finally clears his name, only for the System to send him to a time of war. The blurb can’t do this story justice. Read t 72Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Siheyuan: Starting Out in 1949 with Heaven-Defying Comprehension 四合院：开局四九，悟性逆天 [10,000 words every day, with no breaks!] Li Mingyuan transmigrates to a parallel world, the Dragon Kingdom, and activates the Heaven-Defying Comprehension System. With just one look, he can master any technology! After returning from studying abroad, he stores precious technical materials in the System's space, easily evades inspection, and earns a Second-Class Merit as soon as he comes home with his Type 56 weapon design! The Ministry of Military Industry takes notice and arranges for him to l 23.1kReads7.1Score1.3k14d adds
- 168 Xu Damao: From the Start, I Cost Yi Zhonghai 600 Yuan 许大茂，开局让易中海破财六百块 Yu Damao, who had been made to wear the yellow robe after a Taoist fortune-teller read his fate, is reborn after an accident. He is reborn in the body of a man named Damao in the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. The good news is that he transmigrates just in time for his wedding night and wins over the young Lou Xiao'e. The bad news is that the nine-tiered Exquisite Pagoda that came with him is badly damaged, leaving only its storage function, a small patch of planting space, and an ancient Immor 616Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 169 Reborn Bang Geng: From the Siheyuan to the Stars 重生棒梗：从四合院走向星空 Jia Geng is reborn in 1959 as Bang Geng, a boy in the courtyard house. With a Hongmeng Pearl space and an unlimited supply of goods, he decides to lie flat and enjoy life. He improves the Jia family's living conditions, then helps everyone in the courtyard get through the three years of famine. He takes his whole family to Hong Kong, where they build a villa, drive luxury cars, and establish the Xibei Group. The legendary Thief Saint makes his appearance, using his space to collect everything fr 2.8kReads7.7Score18814d adds
- 170 Siheyuan: I Cleaved Yi Zhonghai with One Blow. Who in the Courtyard Dares Object? 四合院：刀劈易中海，院里谁不服 Dad's dead, Mom's gone. What's the point of living? First, I'll chop down Yi Zhonghai. That's all there is to it. What? The synopsis has to be fifty characters? Let me think. Anyone in this courtyard who dares cross me can forget about having a good time. 12kReads6.9Score67514d adds
- 171 Siheyuan: Starting as a Level Five Machinist 四合院：从晋级五级钳工开始 Five years ago, he arrived in the world of the Siheyuan stories and found Qin Huairu. But Qin Huairu was materialistic and still married Jia Dongxu, who was better off at the time. Five years later, Chu Zifeng became a Level 5 fitter. He also got bound to a System. From then on, he put the neighborhood troublemakers in their place, with beautiful women all around him. His life kept getting better and better. Meanwhile, Qin Huairu regretted it bitterly... 12.5kReads6.4Score66314d adds
- 172 The Handsomest Guy in the Siheyuan, Loved by Every Young Wife 四合院里最俊的仔小媳妇都喜欢我 [Reborn in a Beijing Courtyard, With a Pocket Dimension, Cheeky Shenanigans, Teasing the Birds, Lighthearted, Funny, Low on Hostility, Cunning] The protagonist, Zhao Shengli, is a sly old fox. While visiting his grandfather's grave, he complains that his grandfather never tried hard enough, leaving him unable to find a wife. His rant is so infuriating that it practically blows up the grave, and he transmigrates straight into the TV drama Love in the Courtyard, which he just watched, as a young m 982Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 173 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
- 174 Siheyuan: The Jia Family Wants to Take My House? I'll Make Sure Their Line Dies Out 四合院：贾家抢房？我让他家绝户 Zhang Jianhua woke up to find that he had transmigrated into the world of the courtyard house. Back from the army from the start, he had barely arrived home when he saw Jia Zhangshi and Yi Zhonghai not only bullying his family, but also threatening to seize their house! Well, would you look at that! He’d only just arrived in the courtyard, and they were already pulling this stunt! Fine! If you lot are worse than beasts, don’t blame me for being ruthless! 6.8kReads5.5Score14214d adds
- 175 Transmigrating to a Siheyuan: The Year 1955 from the Start 穿越四合院，开局五五年 Siheyuan + Space + Mental Power + Cautious Approach No demonization, no vulgar bathroom humor, and no talismans or spells. Just everyday family squabbles in the courtyard. It's 1955. Liu Guangqi hasn't run away yet, Jia Dongxu hasn't kicked the bucket, Silly Zhu is still a good big brother, and He Yushui's little face is still nice and round. In 1955, everything is still yet to begin... 9.5kReads6.3Score31014d adds
- 176 In the 1950s, My Spirit-Suppressing Coffin Can Refine Anything 五零年代，我的镇灵棺能炼万物 In 1956, the fool Chen Luo was thrown into a sinister pool inhabited by water ghosts. He survived against all odds and crawled out of an ancient bronze coffin at the bottom of the pool. After his brush with death, Chen Luo's mind cleared, and the villagers said Heaven had blessed him. Only Chen Luo knew the truth: he had become the master of the Spirit-Suppressing Coffin, and refining souls and seizing spirits was only the beginning! When Third Aunt struggled through a difficult childbirth and a 2.9kReads8.0Score21914d adds
- 177 A Life of Unbridled Freedom, Beginning with the Pot-Heaven Divine Power 年代，从壶天神通开启肆意人生 [Period] [Supernatural Powers] [Adorable Kids] [Farming] [Pocket Dimension] [Longma] [Fuzhu] The protagonist, Zhang Mingxuan, transmigrates to the 1960s. A hard life? No big deal! A family that can't get along? No big deal! With a System at my side, I'm going to live life on my own terms. “Player, please open your inventory.” “…” This brain-dead System actually froze. He… Actually… Got stuck on the tutorial… I… What the… Luckily, I'm a modern successor, so I resolutely 1.3kReads5.4Score—14d adds
- 178 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu, Are You Sure You're Their Biological Son? 四合院：傻柱你确定你是亲生的吗 After Chen Yang graduated from college, his father, Chen Chen, took him on a road trip to celebrate. They accidentally collided with a heavy truck and both transmigrated to 1935, the year He Yuzhu was born. After transmigrating, the father, Chen Ming, became the young He Daqing. He knew only the history of the Republic of China and nothing about the plot of Love in the Courtyard. His son, Chen Yang, became a baby and He Yuzhu's twin brother, with full knowledge of the characters' tangled relatio 40Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 179 Siheyuan: The Divine Doctor Rises 四合院：神医崛起 Lin Lidong was drinking with friends at a class reunion when, on his way home, a truck from the Transmigration Administration sent him to Love in the Courtyard. He became a graduate of Peking University's medical school. He has just graduated and must choose what to do next: become a doctor with a bright future at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in the capital, or take an obscure job as the factory doctor at Red Star Steelworks. In the end, Lin Lidong has no choice but to become the factor —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Love in the Courtyard: From the Start, I Stole Lou Xiao'e Away 情满四合院，开局截胡娄晓娥 Zhou Xun transmigrates into a courtyard compound, where he becomes Yi Zhonghai’s apprentice. Yi Zhonghai wants Zhou Xun to look after him in his old age, but Zhou Xun is rebellious to the core. First, he beats Yi Zhonghai to the punch and wins over Lou Xiao'e. Then he becomes an engineer. With a skill System at his disposal, Zhou Xun sits back and watches the scoundrels in the compound reveal their true colors. 2.5kReads7.7Score10614d adds
- 181 Siheyuan: I Am Jia Dongxu's Biological Uncle 四合院之我是贾东旭亲叔 An accident sends Jia Youwei back to 1945, where he becomes the younger brother of Jia Youqian, the biological father of Jia Dongxu. The two brothers are a full fifteen years apart... My new work is now available! Come 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! 11.5kReads8.1Score47514d adds
- 182 Siheyuan: Starting as a Technician and Becoming a Permanent Employee 四合院：从技术员转正开始 (No angst, everyday life, a brand-new story) Li Weidong, who had cancer, opened his eyes again and found himself in the capital in 1958, as a newly confirmed 20-year-old technician. And the apartment he was assigned was none other than the famous Love in the Courtyard?! Silly Zhu, Damao, Dongxu, Huairu, Jia Zhangshi... (Jia Dongxu won't die) They're all “old friends”! Fortunately, he had transmigrated with a golden finger too: the Treasure Chest System. Every time he opened a chest, he could get 11.7kReads7.4Score34614d adds
- 183 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Beat Up Yi Zhonghai After 60 Years 四合院：开局60年，暴打易中海 [Putting the Birds in Their Place + Period Setting + Development and Construction + System + Siheyuan] Li Yang dies suddenly from overwork and transmigrates to a siheyuan in the year 1960. From the start, he’s thrown into a neighborhood meeting, where Yi Zhonghai teams up with the Jia family to seize his home. He refuses to put up with them, beating Yi Zhonghai and the Jia family outright and planning to have them thrown in jail. Bound to a Simplification System, he starts as an apprentice and g 172Reads6.0Score15214d adds
- 184 Siheyuan: Run! Psychic Powers! Take Over the World? 四合院：快跑！念力！抢全球？ Liu Guangfu is beaten awake by his own father, only to gain an infinite storage space and invincible telekinesis! Accidentally shipped overseas, he launches a global free-for-all: clearing out the vaults and granaries of the great powers, and teaching foreigners who refuse to behave a lesson! Gold, silver, treasures, cutting-edge technology: he takes it all, secretly helping his homeland. From the abandoned son of a Beijing courtyard to a national hero working behind the scenes, this is insanely 5Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 185 Siheyuan: I Carried a Plaque to the Military District and Knelt, Then Returned to Take Down the Beasts 四合院：扛匾跪军区，归来毙众禽 Young man Li Aiguo transmigrates into the winter of 1961 and becomes a resident of a courtyard house. His father was a hero who died fighting the Americans, a recipient of the Special Merit Award. His mother was a seventh-grade fitter and a model worker. Because Yi Zhonghai made a mistake on the job, his mother died from an industrial injury, leaving behind her sixteen-year-old son, Li Aiguo, and nine-year-old daughter, Li Ruoxi. Taking advantage of the situation, the beasts showed up at their d 2Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 186 Siheyuan: Transferred Out of the Military, I Join the Security Division from the Start! 四合院：部队转业，开局保卫科！ (If you dislike Qin Huairu, don’t read this. Writing a book isn’t easy, and you can’t please everyone. This novel has a light, comfortable style, without much hostility or mindless sacrificial moves from the usual troublemakers. Does it make sense for them to keep provoking the protagonist when they know he’s an officer in the security department? The early chapters focus on laying the groundwork and creating a pleasant atmosphere, so please be patient. It only gets better as the story goes on!) 2.6kReads7.9Score10114d adds
- 187 Siheyuan: I Feed My Whole Family by Hunting 四合院：我靠打猎养全家 [No Romantic Angst + Lighthearted + Hilarious + Takes the Initiative to Torment the Beasts + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Daily Life] As the boldest man of the twenty-first century, Zhang Wei transmigrates to a courtyard house in 1960. With three martyrs in his family, none of the courtyard’s beasts dares provoke him, yet he goes out of his way to pick fights and torment them. During the hard times, he even hunts so his family can feast on all kinds of wild game. While everyone else is still eating 2.7kReads8.2Score11814d adds
- 188 Siheyuan: I'm Jia Dongxu, the Master of Wall-Mounting 四合院之我是挂墙高手贾东旭 [Courtyard + space + no System + low angst + no demonization] After waking up in the courtyard as Jia Dongxu, who hasn't yet been hung on the wall, he thinks of the versions of his cheap mother, Jia Zhangshi, the spirit-summoning necromancer; his wife, Qin Huairu, the peerless white lotus; his son, Banggeng, the backstabbing thief; and his master, Yi Zhonghai, the Heavenly Venerab 10kReads7.8Score46314d adds
- 189 Siheyuan: From the Start in 1962, I Have Heaven-Defying Comprehension 四合院：开局62年，悟性逆天 [Siheyuan courtyard + System + period setting + technological powerhouse + putting bullies in their place + advancing science and technology + one heroine + developing the nation] Beat the bullies. If they wrong you, get even. A five-strike combo twists Jia Zhangshi’s mouth out of shape. Beat Yi Zhonghai and Jia Zhangshi until they’re singing love songs together. Use a parry, grab, and throw to break He Yuzhu’s hand. Teach Xu Damao a groin kick that smashes He Yuzhu’s balls. After scanning a QR 132Reads7.9Score12514d adds
- 190 Siheyuan: After Supporting Yi Zhonghai in His Old Age, I Take Off 四合院：养老易中海后，原地起飞 The real “Love in the Courtyard”! If the vultures can give me emotional points, can they really be called vultures? “They’re all my dearest friends and family.” This is the story of Li Weiguo using emotional points to reach the peak, and of his loving relationship with his “dearest friends and family.” “Weiguo, this is the empire your Uncle Yi built for you!” Yi Zhonghai felt that he had reached a higher plane! 3.1kReads7.1Score12714d adds
- 191 Siheyuan: You’re All Refusing to Marry? Then I’ll Marry Huang Rong, the Chef 四合院：组团不嫁？反娶厨娘黄蓉 Liu Ye transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard, hoping to steal Qin Huairu away from her intended match. But Qin Huairu's love of money rears its head: she demands a bride price of twenty yuan and a four-piece trousseau right off the bat. The Jia family then starts spreading rumors around the courtyard, turning everyone there against Liu Ye. As a result, Lou Xiao'e, Yu Li, Yu Haitang, and Yushui all reject him. Then the System activates and gives him a wife from the start: Huang Ro 4.3kReads8.2Score18814d adds
- 192 Siheyuan: After the Vermin Lose It, I Take Off! 四合院，众禽破防后，我起飞了！ Zhang Feiyang transmigrates into a courtyard compound, equipped with a frustration-triggering System. Tall and brawny, he brings his eight nephews along to do whatever they please, swaggering around and throwing their weight about. Eight nephews: “Second Uncle, what does it mean to run wild and domineer?” Zhang Feiyang glances at Jia Zhangshi, who’s throwing a tantrum. “This is running wild!” He walks over and slaps her fat face hard. “And that’s domineering!” Jia Zhangshi lets out a scream. “.. 27.4kReads7.2Score1.6k14d adds
- 193 Siheyuan: Laying Low in the Steel Mill’s Security Office Is the Good Life 四合院：苟在轧钢厂保卫科很舒服 There's plenty of anger and family drama, just like real life, which is never one-dimensional. If you lovely folks enjoy it, please leave a good review. If you don't, please still give it five stars, then have a good rant to get it out of your system before you go. Thanks! Wang Weidong's soul transmigrates into the body of a badly wounded company-level officer in 1965. After leaving the army, he becomes head of security at a steel mill. When he moves into a courtyard compound, he enjoys helping 4.1kReads7.9Score10214d adds
- 194 Siheyuan: Journeying Across the Myriad Worlds 四合院：一路踏遍诸天万界 At the System's direction, Liu Ye moves into a courtyard full of beasts. On the first day, he lands a job at the Red Star Steelworks as a Grade Six fitter, earning 72.5 yuan a month, second only to First Uncle Yi Zhonghai and Second Uncle Liu Haizhong. On the second day, he witnesses Silly Zhu take the blame for stealing a chicken. On the third day, he happens to meet Qin Huairu as she brings Qin Jingru to the courtyard. Having read the original story, Liu Ye decides to pay 100 yuan and snatch Q 7.3kReads7.2Score28114d adds
- 195 Siheyuan: The System Kidnapped Me, So I Married a Beautiful Bride 四合院：被系统绑架的我娶美娇娘 Sun Dachi got struck by lightning for ranting about the Beastly Courtyard. An unscrupulous, coercive System kidnapped him and took him to a Beastly Courtyard in 1961. To complete the System’s first mission, he had no choice but to win over the 21-year-old He Yushui. But her brother, He Yuzhu, caught them after things had already gone too far. He Yuzhu, who knew a few fighting moves, broke Sun Dachi’s leg. With no other choice, Sun Dachi fled the courtyard in a hurry. After the coercive System ac 92Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 196 Siheyuan: Shadow Travels, Taking on Qin Huairu from the Start 四合院：影子旅行，开局怼秦淮茹 Lin Rui transmigrates into "The Birds Fill the Courtyard" and is targeted by the Jia family from the start, who have their eyes on his home and food. The greedy Jia Zhangshi says, “My family’s in a tight spot. How about lending us one of those two rooms?” Lin Rui: “Get lost!” The alluring Qin Huairu says, “My family’s in a tight spot, and we’re almost out of food. How about lending us some?” Lin Rui: “Get lost!” The Shadow AFK System comes online, bringing me supplies, skills, and treasures from 1.7kReads7.7Score—14d adds
- 197 Siheyuan: A Happy Life That Begins in the Kitchen 四合院：从厨师开始的美满生活 Beijing, 1962. Li Qiang, executive chef at a five-star hotel, has been single for thirty-eight years. His death is absurd: he walks past a farmers' market and gets buried alive under a truckload of cabbages after a landslide. He opens his eyes to find himself reborn as a newly qualified apprentice cook in Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. The plaster is crumbling off the walls, he has 31.5 yuan in his pocket, and the courtyard's First Uncle, full of talk about benevolence and morality, is s 1.6kReads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Reincarnated in the Siheyuan, Starting Out Invincible 转生从四合院开始无敌 After Lin Yuan was discovered copying a heaven-defying talent in a reincarnation world, he was hunted down. At the critical moment, he transmigrated from the reincarnation world to a courtyard compound, where he discovered that talents could synergize with one another, creating exponential growth like a perpetual motion machine. Awakened Talent: [Echo Replication] First Talent Copied: [Creation at a Thought] Create a divine kingdom within the depths of the soul. Second Talent Copied: [A Thousand 4.3kReads5.5Score48814d adds
- 199 Siheyuan’s Cautious King: From the Start, I Bought Out the National Treasury for Nothing 四合院苟王：开局0元购爆国库 Transmigrate to 1949 as “Silly Zhu,” with both a storage space and telekinesis as cheat powers! Buy everything for free and stockpile gold, antiques, and military supplies. Be the courtyard's king of keeping a low profile while making a fortune! Dish out satisfying face-slapping and use telekinetic tricks to put the courtyard's beasts in their place. Build a god-tier motorcycle that can hit 300 km/h, win a sweet wife, and enjoy life with adorable kids! Travel the country hauling freight while se 8Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 200 Siheyuan: Joining the Security Department and Marrying Qin Huairu 四合院：入职保卫科，迎娶秦淮如 Liu Yun transmigrates into the world of a 1950s courtyard compound and joins the army for three years from the start. As soon as he returns to the village, the village chief wants to introduce the fair-skinned, beautiful Qin Huairu as his wife! He gets assigned a job at the steel mill, where he becomes head of security. His home is at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. When the courtyard’s troublemakers try to push around newcomer Liu Yun by flaunting their seniority, they discover that he’s no newcomer at a 8kReads6.9Score28914d adds
