Novels like Siheyuan: The Truman Show
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Siheyuan: The Truman Show, best match first.
- 1 The Elves Asked for Help, So I Handed Her Over to the State 精灵求援：我把她上交国家 [An elf crosses worlds seeking aid + bringing the matter to the state + fantasy world + one heroine] Fan Xuan woke up from a drunken stupor to find an elven girl lying beside him. Liya had crossed the void to Blue Star, seeking military support from the Dragon Kingdom. Fan Xuan promptly turned the matter over to the state, and together they set out to grow the Tree of Life. After a brief journey in search of seeds, the elves’ world opened its arms to them. There was holy light, magic, and war. E 12Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 2 The Security Office’s Young Bully: Taking Qin Huairu in Hand from the Start 保卫科恶少，开局拿捏秦淮茹 Lin Feng wakes up to find that he has transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, where he becomes an influential officer in the security department of a steel mill. He’s never watched the original show? No problem! He’s read plenty of Siheyuan novels, so he knows all the residents’ dirty tricks by heart! No golden finger? That’s fine! Listen up, everyone: transmigrating into a TV drama is already unbeatable. Why would I need a golden finger? Just get on with it! And what about those 3.3kReads5.2Score200Shelves
- 3 Period: Stirring Up Trouble in the Siheyuan 年代：我在四合院疯狂挑拨 Bu Xiangdong unexpectedly transmigrates into a story set in a bygone era. Even more surprising, the original owner's two famous sidekicks turn out to be Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan. He thought his foreknowledge would let him live a peaceful life, but instead, it made him a thorn in the side of those who wanted him gone. Fortunately, he activates a miraculous Scheming System. Every time he successfully sows discord, he gets a lucky bag filled with all kinds of unexpected rewards, giving him hope of —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: Sacrificing Jia Dongxu to Heaven from the Start 四合院：开局拿贾东旭祭天 He arrives in the world of the courtyard houses and has just activated the sign-in System, when Jia Dongxu dies? Zhang Jianguo looks at Jia Zhangshi, kneeling on the ground and weeping. He strides over and kicks her! His foot hits her forehead and chest. The neighbors stare, dumbfounded, as Zhang Jianguo, usually such an honest man, suddenly explodes. Their jaws nearly hit the floor. From then on, Zhang Jianguo rules the whole animal-filled courtyard with an iron fist. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Double Transmigration to the Siheyuan: Reborn and Ruthless 双穿四合院：重生即狠人 Reborn in a courtyard house, Lin Chen is an orphan anyone can bully. In his previous life, he starved to death on the streets, while Jia Zhangshi and Bang Geng trampled all over his dignity. One day, he awakens a dual-transmigration System. With top-tier fighting instincts at his command and the ability to travel both ways to the modern world, he can get his hands on bread, lighters, gauze, and more! Jia Zhangshi makes a scene and tries to extort him? He snaps her wrist and teaches her a lesson! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: Storms and Strife 四合院之风云 Lin Yang has just moved into a courtyard house. In this lively place, full of the bustle of everyday life and complicated relationships, he gets to know neighbors with all kinds of personalities. Among them, Qin Huairu stands out in particular. A widow with a difficult fate, she raises three children on her own and cares for her elderly mother-in-law. The weight of life has left her exhausted. As Lin Yang gets along with everyone in the courtyard, he encounters a series of troubles and everyday 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Qing Lingle's Ninth Book 青灵乐的第9本书 Li Xingguo transmigrates into the world of "The Courtyard Full of Beasts". He had planned to keep a low profile and live out his days, but then his golden finger arrived. His happy life gets better and better, while the beasts all suffer one misfortune after another. Li Xingguo: I just want to eat dumplings. Don’t mess with me. Whoever does will get what’s coming to them!! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: Saving a Stunning Young Sister-in-Law During the Famine 四合院：饥荒年代拯救绝美小嫂子 (Multiple heroines, Cao Cao’s spirit, a wild ride!) Cheng Mo spends several consecutive nights binge-watching Love in the Courtyard. He feels sorry for the fate of all the women in the show. Fretting, he drifts off to sleep. When he wakes, he finds he has transmigrated into the Qin family village in the world of this courtyard drama. He resolves to help the women break free from their fates. Fortunately, he has the help of a System, which gives him a daily gift pack. In an era when people can ba —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Siheyuan: My Sister, He Yushui! 四合院：我的姐姐何雨水！ The protagonist unexpectedly transmigrates as a baby and is fortunate to be adopted by He Yushui, beginning a wonderful life in the courtyard. Though no one believes in her, He Yushui seems blessed by fate, and her lucky streak goes into overdrive. Good fortune follows her wherever she goes: ration coupons and fabric coupons fall from the sky, a plump rabbit practically jumps into her arms, she lands an astonishing catch while fishing, and even a casual good deed leads her to meet a supply-and-m 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: Nothing but Good Neighbors 四合院：全是好邻居 After transmigrating to Beiping in the autumn of 1948, Mei Youde finds that a glitch in his connection to the System during his transmigration has left him with two Systems. To stay alive, he has to keep spending money and completing System missions. Thus begins his uniquely hilarious life in the worlds of TV dramas and films. This is a pure comedy with no dark or violent undertones. 112Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: I Take on Everyone and Everything in the Courtyard 四合院：我怼天怼地怼全院 Xu Weiyang accidentally transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. He starts out as an ordinary resident of the courtyard and once enjoyed a happy family life. He even had a romantic entanglement with Qin Huairu and came close to marrying her. But fate suddenly took a turn. After his parents passed away one after another, Qin Huairu revealed her true nature as someone who looked down on the poor and fawned on the rich, resolutely marrying Jia Dongxu instead. Worse still, she maliciou —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 I Built a Hub for Ten Thousand Worlds, and the Whole World Is Green with Envy! 我打造万界中心，全球羡慕疯了！ [Invincible Above All] [The Great Rejuvenation] [A Wife for Everyone] [Our People Make Fortunes Across Worlds] Jiang Lan, a factory worker who specializes in screws, gets dumped and unexpectedly acquires a Space-Time Tower linked to the Myriad Worlds. In a low-martial world, he makes a fortune trading goods, fulfills his dreams, and takes in the former dynasty's empress and princess along the way. In a sci-fi apocalypse, he trades vast quantities of supplies for super-technology, gathers the apo 14Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Gets His Life on Track, and the Factory Doctor Makes a Comeback 四合院：傻柱上岸，厂医逆袭 Silly Zhu is no longer a fool. After he stops paying attention to Qin Huairu, his life gets better, and he says goodbye to the widow. From then on, He Yuzhu's life is like a game with cheats enabled. The courtyard's animals can no longer control Silly Zhu. After breaking free from the emotional manipulation, Silly Zhu couldn't be happier. “You can treat me however you want, sis.” “I can keep your bed warm for you.” “Don't ignore me. You can treat me any way you like.” “Get lost. I only like youn 393Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: A Carefree Life, with Monthly Sign-In Rewards 四合院：潇洒人生路，签到月月红 [Siheyuan Courtyard + Blind Boxes + Feel-Good + Pocket Dimension + System + Food + Daily Life + Period Setting] Lin Miao transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard and discovers that the whole courtyard is full of jealous, red-eyed troublemakers. If someone wrongs him, he gets even on the spot. He will never indulge those beasts. [A coming-of-age story about a young scholar and a young chef] “Ding! Sign in to receive a generous supply of goods!” [Siheyuan Courtyard food story] [The go 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: They Seize My Home from the Start! I Strike Back Hard 四合院：开局霸占我房！重拳出击 [Siheyuan Courtyard + System + Period Setting + Science and Technology Make the Nation Strong + Clean Up the Courtyard + Feel-Good Fiction + Pocket Dimension] Li Weimin has just transmigrated when he finds the Jia family occupying his home. Steal my house? Not a chance! Li Weimin sets out to put all the courtyard's troublemakers in their place. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Fiercest Man in the Siheyuan 四合院第一狠人 [Transmigration--courtyard compound--System--single male lead] In 2026, on the Persian Gulf battlefield, He Dazhu, a Chinese-French mercenary working for the Wagner Group hired by the Americans, kills time during a ceasefire by rewatching Love in the Courtyard for the third time. He grumbles that Silly Zhu is a complete doormat, only for Iran to play dirty and launch a missile. When he wakes up, it's 1951 in the capital, and he's become the very doormat he'd mocked: Silly Zhu. To make matters wo 398Reads5.5Score115Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: Even an Angler Gets a Springtime Romance 四合院之钓鱼佬也有春天 [Siheyuan Courtyard + System + Pocket Dimension + A Fishing Enthusiast's Springtime] When Cao Weiwu woke up, he found himself in the world of Love in the Courtyard. He'd also been assigned to a steel mill, where he worked as a buyer in the procurement department. In an era when everyday goods were scarce, and surrounded by a bunch of beasts, Cao Weiwu couldn't help feeling nervous. Fortunately, at this crucial moment, he awakened a Myriad Worlds Fishing System. His life with cheat-like advanta —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: Starting with Daily Panel Settlements! 四合院：从每日面板结算开始！ [System]+ [Feel-good]+ [play the pig to eat the tiger]+ [Cinematic Universe Crossover]+ [Daily Life] After transmigrating to a Beijing courtyard in the 1960s, he becomes He Yuzhu, head chef at the Red Star Steel Mill. He gains a system that settles his daily progress. “Ding! The Host has been detected keeping up with his running. Stamina +500, reward: 500 yuan!” “Ding! The Host has been detected working hard at cooking. Culinary skills +1,000, reward: one bicycle ticket!” By breezing through 131Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: My System Rewards Diligence 四合院：我的系统天道酬勤 A sudden accident, like the turning of fate’s gears, swept Zhang Yuandong into the world of Love in the Courtyard, a place teeming with all kinds of people. On top of that, he was lucky enough to bind himself to the Heaven Rewards Hard Work System. The story opens with a lively courtyard-wide meeting. Before Zhang Yuandong has even had time to adjust to his unfamiliar surroundings, he is thrust into the spotlight. Jia Dongxu bluntly demands that he donate twenty to his family, acting as if it we —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: I’d Just Transmigrated When They Arrested Me as a Spy 四合院：刚穿越就被当特务抓起来 The moment I transmigrated into the world of The Bond, I was pinned down as a spy. A world with next to nothing has been connected to one plagued by overcapacity and in urgent need of industrial upgrading. The System requires the protagonist to collect emotional points from characters in The Bond to maintain their transmigration and cross-dimensional delivery abilities. Due to unavoidable circumstances, this story will do its best to avoid depicting historical figures. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Bringing My Sister Through the Siheyuan, Every Meeting Doubles My Wealth 四合院带妹穿，开大会就财富翻倍 [Siheyuan courtyard + dedicated female lead + farming + feel-good power fantasy] Lin Chen's childhood sweetheart, Sang Zihan, comes back from the dead and transmigrates with him into the world of Siheyuan. The 1960s are full of opportunities, and Lin Chen awakens a System that rewards him for holding courtyard meetings. Whenever a meeting is held in the courtyard, the System's wealth points double! Getting the residents of the No. 95 courtyard on Nanluogu Lane to hold a meeting is easy enough, r —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Crushes White-Eyed Wolf Bang Geng 四合院：傻柱吊打棒梗白眼狼 “You were born into a wealthy family, and showed extraordinary musical talent from a young age!” “When you were five, you became a student of a teacher at an arts school and began your pursuit of art...” “At seventeen, you earned top marks in your major and second place in your general subjects, becoming one of the Central Conservatory of Music's outstanding students...” “At eighteen, you won the gold medal in the pop category of the national singing competition...” “At twenty-one, on your mento 2.9kReads5.4Score103Shelves
- 23 Living Life with Dignity in the Siheyuan 我在四合院里敬生活 I transmigrated and was reborn in someone else’s body. Yanjing, 1961. No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. The timeline and ages are a little different, so don’t take the characters as exact matches. Slow-paced, no toxicity, no hostility, romance-focused, and lighthearted. If that’s not your thing, proceed with caution. With nothing to my name, how could I dare get involved in worldly affairs? With sleeves clean of dust, how could I dare wrong a beauty? I’ll face the world with an open heart and move mountains 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Siheyuan: From the Start, I, Xiangzi, Slapped Wen San Across the Face 四合院开局我祥子抽文三大嘴巴子 Zhou Benxiang never expected to transmigrate into the very Camel Xiangzi, much less to start by giving Third Master Wen, that little Beiping whirlwind with a built-in karmic-law skill, a brutal thrashing over two camels! At that moment, Xiangzi was falling apart inside. He had no idea whether his System could shield him from the karmic backlash of Third Master Wen’s skill! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: 1954, Starting with a Street Stall 四合院：五四年，从街头小摊开始 Chen Jun, a young man who tragically died suddenly from working overtime in the modern world, unexpectedly got a chance to be reborn. His soul transmigrated to Nanluoguxiang in 1954. But a smooth life was not what awaited him. His circumstances were a complete disaster from the start: his father had died young, his mother was sick and bedridden, his little sister needed looking after, and he was unemployed. The burdens of life weighed down on him like a mountain. Fortunately, a turning point in 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 I Changed Class to Netherworld Warden, and the Nation Helps Me Stack Souls! 转职幽冥典狱长，国家帮我叠魂！ [Class Change for All + Infinite Stacking + Leveling Up + Ensemble Cast + National Backing + Multiple Heroines] On class-change day, Su Yan was dumped by the S-rank campus beauty and rated an F-rank Gravekeeper, becoming the laughingstock of the entire school. Only he knew that he had actually changed into an SSSEX-rank, unique hidden class: Netherworld Warden! His core talent, Netherworld Soul Shackles, lets him grow infinitely stronger just by collecting souls! Just as everyone thought he was 376Reads6.6Score110Shelves
- 27 Siheyuan: An Unexpected Visitor 四合院之意外来客 Maybe your life isn’t wonderful, but it’s not all that bad either. An unexpected visitor arrives in the Siheyuan. Watch as he carves out a different path through this turbulent era. The early story focuses mainly on building his future, and he gradually becomes part of life in the Siheyuan. 21Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: Starting with the Execution of the Deaf Old Lady 四合院：从枪毙聋老太开始 Wang Qihua transmigrated into the world of The Courtyard of Beasts. His parents were both dead, and he was surrounded by scoundrels. Despite such a hellish start, he thrived. From the start, he got a sign-in System and a beginner's gift pack, with a small sign-in every seven days and a big sign-in every month. More grain than he could eat, pork in abundance, gene serums, grandmaster-level martial arts... Every day, he had fish and meat, and lived like a king! Originally, Wang Qihua only wanted t 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 I Transmigrated into Golden Wedding and Lay Flat in the Siheyuan 穿越金婚躺平到四合院 After transmigrating into a story about nurturing a husband through a golden marriage, I kept lying flat all the way to a courtyard house. Come see a different kind of courtyard-house story. (I prefer happy stories, so this one isn't tragic.) 58Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 A Happy Life in the Siheyuan After Being Reborn 重生四合院的幸福人生 Sun Xiangyang is reborn in a Siheyuan, a courtyard full of scoundrels. See how he lives a happy life there. Things will definitely differ from the original story, so please bear with me. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: I Just Transmigrated, and They're Already Dragging Me Off to Be Shot? 四合院刚穿越就要拉着我去枪毙？ Protagonist: Xu Kun. The story is mainly about developing heavy industry and making the country strong through science and technology. There are a few courtyard-comedy characters at the beginning. In 1961, enemy agents were still hiding among the people. Xu Kun transmigrates to No. 59 Nanluoguxiang, only to wake up and find himself falsely accused by enemy agents of being a homicidal maniac. He’s about to be executed by firing squad! The most ridiculous part is that he’s in a courtyard, but his 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Siheyuan: I Got a Golden Finger Right From the Start 四合院：刚来就有金手指 Courtyard house, courtyard house, courtyard house. Important things are said three times. The protagonist has barely arrived when he gets a golden finger. My goodness, brother, that’s seriously impressive... 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 I Handed the System Over to the Nation, and God-Tier Traits Take the Country Across the Sea of Stars 系统上交国家，神级词条带国星海 [Handing it over to the state] [Passionate service to the country] [Development] [The stars and the sea] Long Qiang is divorced by his wife, and the wealth accumulated by three generations of his family is handed over to someone else. An accidental electric shock binds him to a System that draws attributes. As long as he collects enough energy, he can win a prize! A gold digger swindled him out of his entire fortune, and now he’s broke? No problem, just add an attribute! Brick + [Gold] attribute 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Siheyuan: Heaven-Defying Comprehension, Starting as a Baby 四合院：悟性逆天，从婴儿开始 When she transmigrates as an abandoned baby in a courtyard compound, the protagonist’s fate seems shrouded in darkness from the very start. Despised by everyone in the compound, she is adopted by the poorest family and becomes an object of pity in everyone’s eyes. They all hope the family will be driven to desperation so they can buy their house on the cheap. But fate always takes unexpected turns. The protagonist’s status as the family of a fallen soldier earns her a government pension, giving —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Siheyuan: Follow Your Heart 四合院之一切从心 An older unmarried courier transmigrates to a courtyard house in 1947 after a traffic accident. Yan Bugui wants to guard the gate? He can forget about it. Jia Dongxu is supposed to meet Qin Huairu for a matchmaking date, but that won't happen: she married the protagonist before Liberation. Yan Bugui must be thrilled to move into the central courtyard and become neighbors with Jia Zhangshi. Please keep following my work. 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Watches the World Unfold and Coasts to Victory 四合院：何雨柱笑看风云，躺赢 It's a bloodbath across the whole compound. The Deaf Old Lady is standing behind Yi Zhonghai. First, take out Jia Donglü, then the First Aunt, followed by the Deaf Old Lady. Xu Damao married a country woman, but the Lou family never thought much of him. Liu Guangqi got his legs broken. Any disagreement, and it's straight to the killing! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Siheyuan: I Became More and More Twisted After Arriving in Another Body 四合院：从身穿开始我越发变态 Li Feng discovers that his five-year-old son looks a lot like “Edison Chen” from the same village as his wife! He suffers a mental breakdown. On his way to take revenge with a kitchen cleaver in hand, he encounters an unknown entity and accidentally transmigrates. The devastating blow also makes him grow more mature with each passing day. From then on... He becomes more and more twisted! To him, women are nothing but commodities. In his eyes, there is no love, only passion. His principles in lif 2Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Different Life 四合院：何雨柱别样人生 He Yuzhu actually transmigrates, going straight back to 1950 and the courtyard, where he becomes his younger self, not yet toyed with by fate, but still facing the prospect of being abandoned by his father, He Daqing. Only 15 years old and still an apprentice at Hongbin Restaurant, he refuses to repeat the path of his previous life. So He Yuzhu makes a shocking decision: he sits the first college entrance exam in 1952 and gets into university, embarking on a life completely different from his pr 505Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Siheyuan: Zhang Yang's Joyful Life 四合院之张扬的快乐生活 Past and present lives blur together, and right and wrong are hard to tell apart. What does a person live for? In the end, it may all be no more than a dream of wealth and glory. When that time comes, how many people will look back without regrets? Should we live as we please, or stick to the rules? Let’s follow our cultivation-taught hero as he finds joy, love, and vengeance in a courtyard house. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Zhang Yang, a young man 106Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 40 Yi Zhonghai's Biological Son Has Arrived in the Siheyuan 四合院易中海的亲儿子来了 A dying assassin detonated his explosives in his final moments. Reborn in the world of a TV drama, he becomes Yi Ping'an, the son Yi Zhonghai never knew he had. When a top assassin, judged by the System to lack all humanity, suddenly transmigrates and gains a family, will he still be heartless? And now that Yi Zhonghai suddenly has a son, will he still be the paragon of morality? —Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: I Make Short Work of All Those Pests 四合院：轻轻松松虐众禽 Shen Fei transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan and binds to the Negative Emotion Value System. He can collect other people’s negative emotion points, and once they reach ten thousand, he gets a draw. Draws earn him prizes that can make his life better! Shen Fei gives a cold smile. So this is a license to torment the miserable lot in this courtyard? He won’t show these scoundrels any mercy. He’s a professional at making their lives miserable! The original owner was killed by Bang Geng and —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Siheyuan: My Invincible System Is a Master of Shenanigans 四合院：我的无敌系统超会整活 After an unexpected transmigration, Cao Zhongjing arrived in a lively, conflict-ridden courtyard world, where fate took a sudden turn: he activated an invincible System. From that moment on, the peace of the courtyard was shattered, and everything began changing in utterly unexpected ways. Qin Huairu, once gentle and timid, underwent a sudden change under Cao Zhongjing's subtle influence. She rounded on Jia Zhangshi and roared, “Jia Zhangshi, listen up! From now on, you’d better behave yourself —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Siheyuan: I'm a Doctor Who Can Fish in a Thousand Worlds 四合院：我，医生可垂钓万界 Lin Chen accidentally transmigrates into the world of the courtyard. On his very first day, he nearly gets into serious trouble and is almost branded a hooligan and sent to a stone quarry to haul rocks. Fortunately, there is always a way out. At the crucial moment, he awakens the miraculous “Fishing Across Myriad Worlds” golden finger, starting out with a cloud and a fishing rod and embarking on an extraordinary life. With this unique ability, he fishes up [Mind Reading]. This supernatural power —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Siheyuan: I Saved the King from the Start 四合院：开局救了国王 After transmigrating to a courtyard-house world in 1970, he saves the queen of the Daughters’ Kingdom on a farm in southeastern Shanxi from the start, and begins a carefree life. As a transmigrator, he has to have both love and career, or he’d bring shame to his fellow transmigrators. 11Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 45 Invading the Myriad Worlds: From the Start, the Nation Recruited Me 万界入侵：开局我被国家收编 The rating is low because it just came out. It’ll go up. This book combines Japanese anime, tokusatsu, science-fiction films, Chinese animation, American TV shows, and more. But it all serves one purpose: to bring about the glorious rejuvenation of the Divine Land through a multiverse! [Traveling between worlds] + [Conquering the stars] + [Science fiction and fantasy] + [Anime and films] + [Smart characters] + [Gradual growth] + [Multiple perspectives] + [The protagonist and his country grow str 78Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 46 I Have a Time-Space Gate, and I’m Taking My Country on a Journey 我有一道时空门，带着国家去穿越 At first, Guo Yang only wanted to find some gold in another world and buy himself a house. But when he saw an entire world laid out before him, he realized: He'd been thinking too small! His vision was too limited! He was going to lead China to greatness! 416Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: Invincible Thanks to the Wild Goods System 四合院：无敌从野货系统开始 Su Ping'an wakes up to find that he has transmigrated into the infamous Courtyard of Beasts. Fortunately, he awakens a miraculous Wild Goods System. Every time he harvests an unusual wild product, he receives an astonishing, top-tier technology: from Microsoft technology to hybrid rice technology, from hand-building an engine to hand-building a nuclear weapon. In this courtyard, full of schemes and strife, how will Su Ping'an use the tremendous power granted by the System to change his fate? And —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Iron-Blooded God of Cooking: Li Yunlong’s Siheyuan Showdown 铁血厨神：李云龙的四合院战争 [No freezing to death under a bridge] [No being eaten by wild dogs] [No getting schemed against and left without an heir, as in all those popular web novels] [No mindless help from Yi Zhonghai for the widowed Qin] [If Jia Zhangshi’s son dies, she’ll finally stop acting so recklessly] [Slow-paced story, slice of life] If that’s not your thing, don’t read. It all begins on March 2, 1962. When Li Yunlong, who had committed suicide in 1968, opens his eyes, he finds himself in a parallel world, with 2Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: I'm a Virus Expert, and Silly Zhu Has Gastroenteritis 四合院：我病毒专家，傻柱肠胃炎 Li Weiguo transmigrates to Love in the Courtyard in the 1960s. From the start, he loses both parents. Luckily, his adoptive parents were martyrs who left him a house and arranged for him to work at the Red Star Steel Mill. Unfortunately, the house is in the Love in the Courtyard compound. The Jia family has had its eye on Li Weiguo’s house for ages. Jia Zhangshi and Yi Zhonghai join forces to target him at every turn. Jia Zhangshi even brands him a jinx, claiming he caused his parents’ deaths. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Siheyuan: I Can Hear People’s Thoughts, and the Vermin Are Beaten into Submission 四合院：偷听心声，众禽被整趴 [Hear people's inner thoughts, no System, no angst, feel-good power fantasy] He Yuzhu gets a blessing in disguise and discovers he can hear the beasts' inner thoughts. After seeing through Qin Huairu's true nature, he vows never to be a blood bank again. When he learns of Yi Zhonghai's retirement plan, he can no longer be the old man's chosen successor. He lives by the principle: “If you don't mess with me, I won't mess with you.” If those beasts come looking for trouble, don't blame me for maki 1Reads—Score—Shelves
