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- 1 I Have a World on Demand in the Siheyuan 人在四合院我有随时世界 Lin Chen opened his eyes in a Beijing courtyard in 1962. His parents were dead, he had boundless magical power, and fortunately he had a golden finger, or he wouldn’t have survived. Now that I have a golden finger, I’m going to live a different kind of life in this era. I refuse to be a drudge. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Behind the Steel Mill Kitchen: A Turbulent Tale 轧钢厂之后厨风云 [Pocket Dimension + One Heroine + No Antagonism] This book is also known as: This Silly Zhu Is Such a Coward After transmigrating into a Beijing courtyard in 1958, Silly Zhu's top priority is to keep his head down and quietly plan his move out of the courtyard... [Important notice: He moves out of the courtyard before Chapter 60!!!] 5Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 3 Siheyuan: I've Become a Walking Sieve 四合院：穿成筛子了 Because of the System, Liu Guangfu took to life as a street hooligan. He was either picking fights or on his way to one. The courtyard compound was battered by wind and rain, while the old lady was haunted by midnight terrors. . 6.5kReads8.2Score24014d adds
- 4 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Use My Son to Fool Silly Zhu 四合院：开局拿儿子忽悠傻柱 “Second Young Master Tang, you think you can set your sights on Xiaodang? Take a good look at yourself first!” “Second Young Master Tang, you think you can write? With your junior high school education?” Decades later, Tang Ping becomes a literary giant of his generation. “All right, I guess we were blind back then!” 577Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 5 A Cultivator's Journey in Siheyuan 四合院之修仙旅途 A new story is here! You're welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you like it! Ahem, this is my first time writing a book, so please forgive me if there are any rough spots! 458Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Siheyuan: I Really Don't Want to Transmigrate 四合院：我真不想穿越啊 Chen Dajun, a lowly workhorse in the new society, dies suddenly after working overtime nonstop. By a twist of fate, he transmigrates to the world of "The Full Courtyard", becoming one of the nameless passersby, a proud member of the proletariat. He wants to cry but has no tears. He really never wanted to transmigrate! He still has savings he hasn’t spent, he hasn’t met up in person with the cute Douyin girl he just met, and the zombie girl he adores is still waiting for him to send her gifts~ Si 14kReads7.3Score62414d adds
- 7 Film and TV Siheyuan: I Want to Be a Good Person 影视四合院我想做个好人 Ye Ziliang, a powerful figure in the underworld, was betrayed and shot dead, full of resentment. By chance, he was reborn in his youth. He had originally planned to mend his ways and become a good person in this life, but instead he unexpectedly activated the Strongest Villain System. All he could do was stare at the sky in speechless despair. I really want to be a good person, but the System offers too much. And across the way live Jia Zhangshi, the spirit-summoning master, and Qin Huairu, the 1.1kReads7.7Score10014d adds
- 8 A Different Life for Silly Zhu 傻柱的别样人生 On the very day Silly Zhu transferred ownership of his house to Bang Geng, Bang Geng heartlessly kicked him out of the Siheyuan. It was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the coldest time of year, and snow was falling thick and fast. Poor Silly Zhu froze to death under a bridge. In the end, it was his sworn enemy, Xu Damao, who collected his body. . 14.9kReads8.4Score39314d adds
- 9 Siheyuan: The Short-Tempered Street Tough, Fierce and Never Short of Words 四合院：暴躁街溜子，人狠话又多 Jiang Yan transmigrates into the world of the courtyard house and becomes an idle street loafer. He also marries Qin Jingru. He wants nothing to do with the nasty residents and just hopes to live his own life in peace. But to his surprise, they join forces to make trouble for him, all because they want the two rooms his family has owned for generations. Jiang Yan refuses to let them walk all over him. If you people are nasty, I can be nastier! Jia Zhangshi has a foul mouth and curses me to die w 2.4kReads5.4Score—14d adds
- 10 Siheyuan: You Stole My Childhood Sweetheart? Just Watch What I Do to You 四合院：抢我青梅？看我怎么整你 Love in the Courtyard + Hunter + Period Piece + Childhood Sweethearts + Stealing Someone's Love + Revenge on a Rival -------------------- —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 A Happy Life in the Siheyuan 人在四合院之幸福生活 [The Animal-Filled Siheyuan + Everyday Life + Mildly Violent Edge + Golden Finger] Ye Lin suddenly transmigrates into an animal-filled siheyuan. In his previous life, he was an orphan taken in by an old man. When Ye Lin turned eighteen, the old man passed away, and just like that, he transmigrated. Luckily, his golden finger arrives. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to get by. From here on, a happy life awaits. 71Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's New Life 四合院：傻柱的新生 In his previous life, Silly Zhu became estranged from everyone for the sake of a widow. In the end, he died beneath a bridge on a freezing winter night, and it was his sworn enemy who collected his body. Now reborn with memories of his previous life, can He Yuzhu escape his old fate and build a better life? Let's wait and see! 15.9kReads8.1Score57914d adds
- 13 Siheyuan: I Have a Produce Market on Me 四合院：随身带着菜市场 (Pocket dimension + Power fantasy + Everyday life + Cunning schemer + Shameless tricks + Tall tales + No supernatural villains) Also known as: Promotion at the Steel Mill, The New Liaison Officer, Siheyuan’s Top Dog, and A Big Mouth That Eats Everything Except a Loss. Schemes, strategic maneuvering, empty promises. No hostility, no formulaic plot. Those who meddle should beware. Factory grunt Wu Youde collapses at a vegetable market after working too many night shifts. When he wakes up, he has a 5.4kReads7.5Score14114d adds
- 14 Siheyuan: Snatching Qin Huairu from the Start 四合院之开局截胡一手秦淮茹 Li Jianshe transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard. With the Life System in hand, he arrives just as Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu are on a blind date. No need to say more: he cuts in and takes her for himself. Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have received one ton of rice. 2.5kReads6.4Score11814d adds
- 15 Siheyuan: Days of Glorious Spring 四合院：春光灿烂的日子 Reborn in 1958, he transmigrates to a time of prosperity and awakens a golden finger. After accepting reality, Li Weidong decides to focus on making a good life for himself. Right and wrong, grudges and grievances, none of it has anything to do with him. A heart of red, devoted to the East. P.S. This story focuses on warmth and kindness. Everything in it is fictional, so please read with a clear head. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Siheyuan: I Have a Trash Can for All Worlds 四合院：我有一个万界垃圾桶 Lin Cheng transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan and is about to have his home and job snatched from him by a bunch of shameless bullies from the start! Luckily, at the crucial moment, he awakens a System and obtains a trash can connected to countless worlds! Every day, he can get special items from the trash can, and it even comes with a portable space. Lin Cheng is overjoyed. Now he finally has what it takes to stand up to those bullies. While everyone in the Siheyuan is sick of eating c 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Siheyuan: I Do Whatever I Please 四合院之主打一个随心所欲 The unremarkable Li Aiguo arrives in his sleep in the world of a courtyard-house drama. Let’s see how this patriotic fellow, who has watched the entire series and has a golden finger, lives as he pleases in this era... 175Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 18 Siheyuan: Daily Sign-In, Stealing Qin Huairu Away 四合院：每日签到，截胡秦淮茹 Chen Ping'an was carried into the world of Love in the Courtyard before birth. He thought he had no golden finger, so he focused on his studies. Little did he know that the System would show up on his eighteenth birthday! With a technical secondary school diploma from the start and a new job at the Military Control Commission, Chen Ping'an has truth in one hand and the System in the other. He says, "I'm invincible. Do as you please." Jia Zhangshi wants to make trouble? If I can't deal with you, 2.7kReads6.7Score11114d adds
- 19 Siheyuan: Reborn as He Yuzhu, Living the Good Life 四合院：重生何雨柱，潇洒小生活 He clutched a faded animal-hide map in his hand. Its edges had curled and cracked with age, and the route lines drawn in cinnabar crisscrossed before ending at a hidden spot beneath this cliff. Tucked close against his chest beneath his undershirt was also a dull, lusterless black jade token, the one his father had pressed into his hand on his deathbed. 201Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 20 Siheyuan: They Actually Reported Me for Being a Communist 四合院：他们居然举报我通共 Reborn into a Beijing courtyard compound, he gets reported for a crime. The final charge: colluding with the enemy. Is that a crime? Is that a crime? That's a huge achievement, if you ask me. After one round of reports, the original owner takes off like a rocket. 5Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 21 How Did I Become Qin Huairu's Son? 我怎么就变成秦淮如的儿子了？ Jia Gao is a 76-year-old retiree whose favorite pastime is listening to spin-off novels of Love in the Courtyard on the Tomato app. He often imagines himself as one of the characters, loving whoever the author loves and hating whoever the author hates. He even leaves the author comments suggesting ways to torment the Jia and Yi families, along with Grandma Deaf. Then his wish comes true: he transmigrates to that passionate era and becomes Qin Huairu's son... 333Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Forcefully Take Qin Jingru as My Own 四合院开局强行收了秦京茹 An accident sends Zhang Fei’s soul into a courtyard house, and he thinks he’s dreaming. He beats up Jia Zhangshi, then drags Qin Jingru into the woods late at night... He gets all the nasty neighbors in line! In the end, he makes his own way in that world… 11.4kReads7.0Score69214d adds
- 23 Siheyuan: Winning Lou Xiao’e’s Heart and Helping Her Become a Mother 四合院：拿下娄小娥，我助她当妈 [Courtyard, Feel-Good Story, Leveling Up, Sign-In System, the Myriad Worlds, Live-Action Adaptations] Lu Yuan transmigrates into the courtyard and binds an Invincible Sign-In System from the start. He gains divine-level medical skills, makes life-extending pills, gathers tons of supplies, and makes a fortune through farming and livestock breeding. Xu Damao says Lou Xiao'e can't have children? I'll make her a mother! The Yu Li and Haitang sister duo, Qin Jingru... 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Siheyuan: Transmigrating as Silly Zhu, Beating Up the Whole Yard 四合院：穿越傻柱，暴揍众禽 Winter fishing enthusiast He Yu reels in a He Yuzhu who is barely clinging to life. After fulfilling He Yuzhu's dying wish, He Yu inexplicably transmigrates to the 1960s and becomes He Yuzhu. Faced with the people in the courtyard who caused He Yuzhu's tragic death, he chooses to fight back head-on! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Siheyuan: Becoming a Live-In Son-in-Law in 1976, Marrying Huaihua 四合院：七六年当赘婿，嫁给槐花 Multiple heroines + Building wealth + Crossover with film and TV + Transmigration + The Courtyard + Male-oriented spin-off + Fan fiction + Spin-off This really is "Love in the Courtyard". In his previous life, Hao Mobi had no wife or children and spent his old age in misery. In this life, he’s determined to make up for those regrets. But just getting married and having children would be a waste of his talents. He’ll pursue an official career and climb the ranks, expand his businesses, and work h 1.2kReads6.7Score11014d adds
- 26 Siheyuan: I Am the One True God 四合院：我是唯一真神 Lin Ye is reborn as an insignificant passerby in the Siheyuan and awakens the “Hongmeng Space.” From the start, he uses his knowledge of the future to steal Qin Huairu away on the day she is set up on a date with Jia Dongxu. With love lines far ahead of their time, “predictions” about the future, and a mysterious air, he wins her over. Within three days, he secretly registers their marriage, sending shock waves through the whole courtyard. At its heart, this story is not simply about conflicts i 865Reads—Score10514d adds
- 27 Siheyuan: The System Wants Me to Stir Things Up 四合院之系统让我搞事 Let’s liven up the courtyard. Since Jiang Ye has transmigrated into this world, and this era is short on entertainment, the residents of the courtyard will just have to keep putting on a show. He’ll make the whole world livelier, too. In this world, he can do whatever he likes. Serious warning!!! Later on, he will reveal his extraordinary abilities, including his pocket dimension. 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Siheyuan: I Open My Eyes to Find Qin Huairu at Nineteen 四合院：睁眼看见十九岁的秦淮茹 Lin Kai was hit by a dump truck and sent to the outskirts of Qin Family Village in 1952. It was the height of summer. A girl with her hair in braids was gathering firewood outside the village when she spotted someone lying by the river. “Comrade, comrade, you can’t sleep here!” The girl cupped some river water in her mouth and sprayed it onto Lin Kai’s face, waking him up. Lin Kai looked at her. Three parts familiar, four parts strange, and the remaining three parts as if he’d seen her somewhere 43Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 29 Siheyuan: I Want a Child from the Start. If You Won't Have One, We'll Divorce 四合院：开局要孩子，不生就离婚 “Ding! System starting... Congratulations, transmigrator number 100086 has successfully possessed a host. Rewards: one infinite space, one Rejuvenation Pill, and 99 yuan in a red packet. Please claim them within 24 hours!” 10.2kReads6.8Score25414d adds
- 30 Siheyuan: An Eighth-Rank Fitter Dotes on Huairu from the Start! 四合院：开局八级钳工娇宠淮茹！ System + devoted husband + doting dad + reformed playboy + feel-good power fantasy Don’t worry too much about the original show’s timeline. If that bothers you, read at your own risk! He opens and closes his eyes, only to find himself in the body of Jia Dongxu, who died young in the courtyard! From the start, he awakens a devoted-husband System. Earn affection points by doting on his wife, and you can draw prizes? His first draw gives him a portable space, so he’ll never go hungry or thirsty! A 52Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 31 The Fourth Book by Liulang Sansheng 流浪三生的第4本书 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 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 317Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Siheyuan: Building a Safe Haven 四合院：打造避风港 A courtyard drama + special abilities + heroine + everyday life. Nie Hao transmigrates and awakens memories of his past life from the start. A war hero moves into the rear building, and his System and special abilities arrive late but right on time, letting him dive straight into the fun. It's an everyday-life story with a slower plot. Jia Dongxu is going on a blind date? Dongxu, you can't handle this. I'll head to Changping first. He catches an enemy spy, and Chen Xueru won't leave him alone? W 636Reads6.3Score11414d adds
- 34 More Children, More Blessings: It All Begins with Qin Huairu 多子多福从拥有秦淮茹开始 1.3kReads5.5Score10014d adds
- 35 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 264Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 36 Siheyuan: The Bandit Xiangzi Won't Be a Workhorse, He'll Be the Boss 四合院：悍匪祥子不当牛马要当爷 [Lighthearted and Witty + Crackdown on Crime + Spy Thriller + Mystery-Solving + Fighting the Japanese + Changing Characters' Fates + Multiple Film and TV Worlds in a Beijing Courtyard] He transmigrates into Xiangzi, the rickshaw puller, and sells the three camels he's leading to a hotpot restaurant for 69 silver dollars. Now he stands at a crossroads in his fate. He could spend 69 silver dollars on a secondhand rickshaw and keep working like a beast of burden, only for someone else to steal it. 11.7kReads7.7Score60014d adds
- 37 Siheyuan: Defying Fate and Taking Revenge on All the Courtyard’s Vermin 四合院：逆天改命，报复众禽 [Beijing Courtyard Compound + Pocket Dimension + Transmigration] Heroine: Lou Xiao'e (The story begins in 1951.) He Yuzhu, who had been scraping by in the post-apocalyptic world, died a horrible death. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the Beast-Filled Courtyard, as Silly Zhu, the cannon fodder who had sacrificed himself for the beasts. This time, without a script to follow, He Yuzhu sets out to defy fate with his pocket dimension. When the beasts try to take advantage of him, h 472Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 A Tough Guy in the Siheyuan 四合院一狠人 The courtyard house stays the same, but transmigrators come and go. Today, our protagonist Li Hui is lucky enough to transmigrate into the legendary Birds-Fill-the-Courtyard! He’s already dead when he arrives! Lying in the funeral hall, he listens as a bunch of people discuss how to divide up his family’s property. He gets up and scares the life out of those beasts. Relying on his ruthless streak, he begins a life of taking on the world and beating the beasts. Yi Zhonghai, the moralizing sage, t 11.5kReads7.0Score46914d adds
- 39 Reborn as Silly Zhu in the Siheyuan, Only to Find Myself in The Outcast? 穿成四合院傻柱，竟是一人之下？ After his soul transmigrates into Silly Zhu, he arrives in the Siheyuan, thinking he might spend this life as a cook, struggling to get along with the courtyard’s beasts. But then he realizes something is off about this place! The beasts can cultivate qi! He awakens a System and discovers that it even provides him with a wife! Oh my! It’s Feng Baobao! 997Reads6.0Score10314d adds
- 40 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Shoot the Deaf Old Lady! 四合院：开局枪毙聋老太！ Granny Deaf is spreading rumors that I'm the last eunuch in the entire capital? Who can't spread a rumor? But I only made up one rumor, and now Granny Deaf, you're going to get the death penalty? Yi Zhonghai, why are you getting the death penalty too? What? Jia Zhang, you're getting the death penalty as well? 419Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 41 Siheyuan: Put a Wolf's Face on a Sheep? 四合院：给羊换张狼脸？ Siheyuan: Giving a Sheep a Wolf's Face? 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Siheyuan: Starting With Gunmaking 四合院：从制枪开始 Gu Luo gains the ability to transmigrate to the past and plans to use it to make a fortune. He never imagined he would transmigrate into the world of the courtyard. To get rich, he first has to advance the development of the Rabbit’s technology. Faced with a courtyard full of beasts, he has no desire to get involved with them. He devotes himself wholeheartedly to the great cause of making the nation stronger through science and technology. From then on, the Rabbit enters an era of explosive 204Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Siheyuan: After My Sign-In, They're All Good Neighbors 四合院：我签到后都是好邻居 Lin Yu accidentally transmigrates to a Siheyuan in the 1960s, arriving destitute and down on his luck. Then fortune smiles on him: he activates a sign-in System, and his life changes. Xu Damao makes things difficult for him, Widow Qin schemes against him, and the First Master tries to win him over, but Lin Yu uses his wits and the System to overcome one crisis after another. His sign-in rewards teach him carpentry, and he starts a business, gradually building his wealth. He stays true to himself —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Siheyuan: What Should Be Done and What Shouldn't Be Done 四合院之有所为有所不为 [Put the Scoundrels in Their Place] [Decisive] [System] [Multiple Female Leads] Given a second life, Hu Zhengyang transmigrates into Silly Zhu, the easy target everyone in the courtyard takes advantage of. The original Silly Zhu was exploited all his life and met a miserable end. This time, he returns with a System and just one rule: Do what you should, and don't do what you shouldn't! He won't be a sucker or raise ungrateful brats. He won't put up with moral blackmail or indulge anyone's nasty 72Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Siheyuan: The System Helps Me Punish Every Scoundrel in the Courtyard 四合院：护哥系统虐遍全院极品 [System] + [Comedy] + [Everyday Life] An employee from the Transmigration Benefits Bureau transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. With the Brother-Protecting System his younger sister gave him, he toys with the courtyard's most insufferable residents. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Siheyuan: 1942, Fleeing Famine from Qin Family Village 四合院：1942，从秦家村逃荒 In 1942, more and more people fleeing famine from elsewhere arrived in Qin Village. Forced by the struggle to survive, Qin Zizhong had no choice but to lead his family toward the city of Beiping. Why has his young sister-in-law come calling in the middle of the night? Is the worldly-naive Qin Huairu really crying and insisting she wants to marry me? Along the way, Qin Zizhong takes on local bullies, treats collaborators, kills Japanese soldiers, punishes the wicked and champions the good, all wh 3.2kReads5.3Score10114d adds
- 47 Siheyuan: Jia Zhangshi Runs Wild and Steals Young Huairu 四合院：暴贾张氏，截胡少女淮茹 [Courtyard Siheyuan + Feel-Good Story + Snatching Someone Else's Catch + The Myriad Worlds + Face-Slapping] Lin Dong transmigrates into a courtyard siheyuan and binds himself to a System. He decides to start by snatching Qin Huaier away while she's still a young woman! He takes on Yi Zhonghai, slaps Jia Zhangshi, and beats Jia Dongxu! In this courtyard, I'm king! 3.4kReads—Score13814d adds
- 48 Siheyuan: Wiping Out All the Vermin 四合院之众禽全灭 Lin Yu transmigrates by chance and acquires a mysterious System, only to discover that he has been dragged into the world of the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. He witnesses how He Yuzhu is bullied and schemed against by Xu Damao, Qin Huairu, the First, Second, and Third Masters, and a host of other neighbors in a courtyard that only seems warm and welcoming. The selfishness and greed hiding beneath their vile facades fill him with rage. If they trample on other people's kindness like beasts in 440Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Break Jia Dongxu's Legs 四合院，开局打断贾东旭的腿 Zhang Jianguo, a modern man, transmigrates to the 1950s. Even more unexpectedly, he turns out to be Jia Zhangshi's younger brother. See how he leads several people from the courtyard in breaking free of their fate and accomplishing something great. 4.3kReads7.1Score10214d adds
- 50 Siheyuan: The Whole Courtyard Preys on the Childless? They’ll All Die in Prison 四合院：全院吃绝户？都牢底坐穿 After transmigrating into the world of a Beijing courtyard in 1956, Chen Fan becomes the eldest son of the widow Bai Dongmei, the woman who made He Daqing abandon He Yuzhu and He Yushui and run off. Bound to a Simplification System. [Women’s seduction techniques can be simplified. Simplification successful: Talk to a woman to improve your seduction skills!] [Chinese martial arts can be simplified. Simplification successful: Throw punches to improve your martial arts!] [Metalworking skills can be 690Reads5.2Score—14d adds
