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- 1 With the System in Hand, Every Beauty in the Siheyuan Is Mine 系统在手，四合院美女我有 After transmigrating into Xu Damao, he picks out his future wife from among the refugees, and from that moment, happiness comes one thing after another. When the troublemakers in the courtyard provoke me, I teach them a few combination punches, one by one. 764Reads6.6Score101Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Story Begins in 1953 四合院，许大茂从1953开始 Silly Zhu killed Xu Damao with a brick. When Xu Damao woke up, another soul had taken over his body. Cleaning up the courtyard is everyone’s responsibility! Watch Xu Damao bring some warmth to the courtyard! 938Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 3 From the Start, Da Mao Was Targeted, and a Drugged-Up Old Deaf Granny Was Sent Away 开局大茂被针对，下药送走聋老太 In his previous life, Xu Damao transmigrated into the world of the Siheyuan after a clichéd attempt to save someone. From the start, at the courtyard's general meeting, Yi Zhonghai targets him. His uncle might put up with it, but his aunt sure won't. Taking a carefree attitude toward life, Xu Damao angrily tears into the whole pack of beasts, turns the tables, and demands to switch houses with Deaf Granny, as well as extorting 1,000 yuan from her. But during the deal, he realizes how deeply thes 2.2kReads8.0Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: I Transmigrated as Xu Damao, and He Won’t Be Wearing a Green Hat 四合院：穿越许大茂，大茂不戴帽 The moment Xu Damao opened his eyes, he had become the newlywed antagonist from Love in the Courtyard. The pounding headache from his hangover and the unfamiliar memories made him realize he had transmigrated. Worse still, he found himself facing Silly Zhu’s fists, while the neighbors jeered nonstop. “Ding! Detected He Yuzhu’s anger: +20 points!” “Ding! Detected Yan Bugui’s contempt: +15 points!” “Ding! Detected Jia Zhangshi’s gloating: +10 points!” Xu Damao endured the pain and stared at the ex 3kReads—Score143Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Leisurely Life 四合院之许大茂悠闲的一生 [Courtyard House + storage space + transmigration + everyday life + sweet romance + one heroine] Xu Qinghong was an ordinary nobody in the apocalypse. While scavenging for gold at a jewelry store, he was caught in the shockwaves of a battle between a high-level Esper and the Zombie King and transmigrated into the notorious Courtyard House world, becoming Xu Damao. Fortunately, his farming space came with him, making life very easy. Every day, he heads to the countryside, screens films, and picks 1.2kReads6.0Score—Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu, Do You Want a Wife or Not? 四合院：傻柱，你要老婆不要 He Yuzhu arrives in the capital in 1950 and unexpectedly discovers Xu Damao, who has also transmigrated. Both of them have a System, and neither is especially hot-tempered. Watch as they teach the courtyard residents a lesson! 1.7kReads6.7Score100Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: Xu Damao Goes Wild on His Wedding Night 四合院：开局洞房，许大茂乐疯了 [Torturing the Hens] [Cozy Daily Life] [One Female Lead] [For Laughs] After transmigrating into the world of the Siheyuan, he becomes Xu Damao, the courtyard's punching bag. Yi Zhonghai picks on him, Silly Zhu beats him up, and Granny Deaf schemes against him. But that was then. Now he has arrived with the [Electronic Karma System]. As long as he helps the beasts pass on, he can earn supplies and skills! He starts from the start by tearing Qin Huairu apart... Together with Ezi, he sets out on th 398Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's New Life 四合院：许大茂的新生 Li Qinglin, whose soul came from the modern era, transmigrated into Xu Damao and activated his System. Watch how Xu Damao changes his fate and lives a remarkable life in these fiery times. 894Reads6.4Score104Shelves
- 9 Siheyuan: I Am Yan Jiedi 四合院之我是闫解娣 An ensemble-cast drama crossover with a feel-good female lead. She transmigrates into the Yan family as a nobody. In the 1950s, she uses her translation skills to change Yan Jiedi’s fate from her previous life and lead the whole family toward a better future. The heroine has no space, just a brainless System. As for the male lead, he’ll appear later. 113Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Quiet Life 四合院：许大茂的平淡生活 [Siheyuan courtyard setting + low angst + System dimension space + single heroine Qin Jingru + genuinely laid-back story + the cautious king's victory] Xu Da transmigrated into the body of the despicable Xu Damao. That's right, the big villain Xu Damao from Love in the Courtyard! Unfortunately, trouble was already brewing, so he had no choice but to sacrifice his wife, ahem, divorce Lou Xiao'e, who came from a capitalist family, and then start living a carefree, leisurely life. 1.6kReads6.5Score104Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: Engineer Damao 四合院之大茂工程师 A senior engineer transmigrates into the siheyuan courtyard and becomes the legendary Xu Damao. He lives a life unlike any other, with no resentment, and casually torments the beasts in his day-to-day life. The golden finger is subtle, nothing over the top, with a more down-to-earth feel. 615Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Wants to Break Up, and I Agreed 四合院：秦淮茹要分手我同意了 “I supported the Jia family for eight years, and now you want to break up? Fine, I’ll grant your wish.” Qin Huairu never dreamed that she would break up with He Yuzhu over a job for Banggeng. He Yuzhu agreed. He turned around, married a beautiful new bride, and kicked Banggeng, Xiaodang, and Huaihua out of his room. To keep the Jia family from bothering him, he rented out his house. Because the He Yuzhu of today was no longer someone she could push around. He should have had a house, money, and 5.1kReads7.2Score189Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Was Bound to a Self-Termination System 四合院：开局绑定自我了断系统 He transmigrates into the beast-filled courtyard and becomes He Yuzhu's cousin. The moment he wakes up, the neighbors are already discussing how to divide up his property. Since he's here, he's going to get his things back! Can't get them back? He awakens the Suicidal System! They won't return his things? As the saying goes, bullies fear the fearless, the fearless fear those who don't care if they live or die, those who don't care if they live or die fear the shameless, and the shameless fe 1.1kReads5.1Score—Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: From the Lone Survivor of the Ice Sculpture Company to the Island-Guarding War God 四合院：冰雕连独苗到镇岛军神 Alongside General Li, the artillery god who led the daring seizure of Luding Bridge, and Chen Weiguo, only the second man ever promoted to general for outstanding individual combat, he earns the rarest of honors 49 times on the battlefield against the American devils. Later, in the Futian region, he shoots down one American reconnaissance plane after another for violating Great Xia's airspace. “Wherever our artillery reaches, that land belongs to Great Xia.” As Chen Weiguo says this, he gazes to 343Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: Xu Damao Reborn in 1956 四合院，重生许大茂1956 Silly Zhu froze to death under a bridge. Xu Damao kindly took care of Silly Zhu's funeral, spending all his savings and getting kicked out by his landlord. He ended up homeless and gravely ill, eventually meeting the same fate as Silly Zhu. On the brink of death, Xu Damao returned to 1956. 268Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 16 A Life of Splendor in the Siheyuan 四合院的风光人生 A special forces soldier from the twentieth century transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard, becoming He Yuzhu's cousin. See how He An gets the courtyard's beasts under control. Whether it's Yi Zhonghai, who loves using moral blackmail, or Qin Huairu, who likes to act like a helpless victim, He An gets every last one of them thoroughly in line. 275Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Lie-Flat Life 四合院之何雨柱的躺平人生 He Yuzhu is reborn in 1951, and from the start sends Jia Zhangshi to prison. Like a butterfly flapping its wings, what changes will this bring to the courtyard? And what fate awaits the courtyard's villains? 17.3kReads6.7Score663Shelves
- 18 Xu Damao's Remarkable Life in the Siheyuan 四合院许大茂的精彩人生 An ordinary young man from the 21st century transmigrates into the 18-year-old Xu Damao. Watch Xu Damao make an exciting life for himself. How will he whip the entire courtyard compound into shape? He’ll show those courtyard pests what it means to be a beacon of righteousness. 671Reads6.3Score104Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: Xu Damao and His Houseful of Descendants 四合院：子孙满堂许大茂 Modern man Xu Da wakes up one day and finds himself as Xu Damao, who is about to get married in Love in the Courtyard. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. I was given an incomplete life, so let me make up for what was missing. Who says Silly Zhu is the protagonist? I, Xu Damao, will live better than him, with more children, more blessings... 588Reads5.8Score101Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: Xu Damao Masters the Thirty-Six Stratagems 四合院之许大茂玩转三十六计 Xu Damao, a 21st-century civil servant and graduate student in Chinese literature who has read Romance of the Three Kingdoms cover to cover, admired literature, and loved nothing more than living freely, dies after falling from the sixteenth floor in an accident. He saves Xu Damao, a 1950s projectionist who fell while showing a film in the countryside and knocked his head against a rock. From then on, he breaks through the script, setting off a very different series of dramatic events in Courtya 412Reads6.9Score102Shelves
- 21 Siheyuan: The Reborn Xu Damao Starts Going Crazy! 四合院：重生的许大茂开始发疯！ [Xu Damao is reborn, unaffected by the plot + one heroine + an unrestricted, half-baked System + plenty of resentment + no System missions] In 1991, Li Huaide swindles Xu Damao out of everything he owns. Wandering the deserted streets in a snowstorm, Xu Damao suddenly spots something glittering. He picks it up out of curiosity, and after talking with it, learns that his whole life is part of a scripted story! Xu Damao refuses to take it. Why does he have to be the foil? Why does Silly Zhu always 2.3kReads5.9Score—Shelves
- 22 Siheyuan: Xu Damao and His System 四合院：拥有系统的许大茂 From the start, He Daqing runs off with a widow. Xu Damao taunts Silly Zhu, saying that He Daqing has run away with her. He never expected that one honest remark would get him beaten to a pulp by Silly Zhu. The worst blow was a kick straight to Xu Damao’s groin, knocking him unconscious. A modern man’s soul transmigrates into Xu Damao. He gets revenge on Silly Zhu for the beating and activates a System. Every time he wins over a heroine or punishes one of the courtyard’s troublemakers, he receiv 1.8kReads6.4Score101Shelves
- 23 Siheyuan: I Sent Jia Dongxu on His Way 四合院：我送走了贾东旭 I’m Xu Damao, and I’m here to support good people! Being reborn as Xu Damao was bad enough, but that damn System made him keep doing good deeds too! The thing was, while Xu Damao thought he was doing good, everyone else felt like he was getting them into trouble. Years later, Xu Damao had become a model citizen of the new era. But Yi Zhonghai, Silly Zhu, and the others trembled whenever they saw him! 522Reads6.8Score102Shelves
- 24 Silly Zhu and Liangzi Take on the World 傻柱和亮子闯世界 After becoming Silly Zhu, he thinks that in this special era he'll be stuck in the courtyard house and the steel mill. Unexpectedly, he gets to travel all across the country and overseas. After the reforms and opening up, he figures being a restaurant owner will be enough, but he unexpectedly becomes an Olympic champion. He thinks that being a champion, then a coach, and eventually a leader is a fine way to spend his life, but then he accidentally shows off his talents in the investment world. 114Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: Behind the Silence 四合院之沉默的背后 Xu Damao. Through time and space, he reaches the age of sixty in a new era; Xu once stirred up storms. Though his might was clear amid turbulent waves, he fell silent, reflecting on the cold years gone by. After living an ordinary life for more than sixty years, Xu Yi's soul travels from 2024 to 1962, entering the body of Xu Damao, who drank himself to death in Love in the Courtyard. Now, he just wants to stay away from trouble and do his best to survive. 1.5kReads6.9Score104Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: Reborn as Han Chunming, I Fooled Su Meng from the Start 四合院：重生韩春明，开局骗苏萌 [Scheming + play the pig to eat the tiger + food + collecting + business + entertainment] When Han Chunming inexplicably transmigrates to Under the Zhengyang Gate, he’s completely bewildered. Ding! The Everything Goes Your Way System is at your service. What the heck? It’s actually a pay-to-win System? Never mind. Making money is what matters. 1.4kReads6.6Score—Shelves
- 27 Siheyuan: If You Don't Like It, Fight Me 四合院，不服就干 What would it be like if a street punk transmigrated into the body of a top student? I won’t bother anyone, so don’t bother me either. I just want to live a quiet, peaceful life with my younger siblings! 3.7kReads5.5Score195Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: From the Start, Qin Huairu Came Knocking 四合院：开局秦淮茹主动上门 115Reads—Score582Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Takes Another Road Through Life 四合院：傻柱重走人生路 1954, in the capital. After a night of snowfall, the whole city was blanketed in white. Courtyard No. 95, Nanluoguxiang. If you want to guilt-trip me, He Yuzhu, you’ll have to wait until your next life! 21.1kReads7.1Score952Shelves
- 30 Siheyuan: Sweet Revenge 四合院：快意恩仇 At a coworker's recommendation, Lin Yi watched Love in the Courtyard from beginning to end. Hot-tempered as he was, the more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He smashed his laptop on the spot. But then he was accidentally electrocuted, and when he woke up, he had arrived in the world of the courtyard. "Holy crap, the TV show was holding back! These beasts are seriously ruthless! Go on ahead without worrying! I'll avenge you!" Lin Yi transmigrates into the courtyard and gets his revenge, 2.2kReads6.3Score103Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: I'm on a Rampage! All That's Left Is the Show's Title 四合院：我！杀疯了，就剩剧名了 Lu Ning transmigrates into a courtyard compound and awakens a Killing System. He discovers that the original owner was tormented to death by Jia Dongxu and the other brutes, ending his life beneath a crooked tree in the suburbs. Thus begins a campaign of revenge and slaughter against the brutes. 26Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 32 Siheyuan: I Turn the First Master Against Them, and Qin Huairu Panics 四合院：策反一大爷，秦淮茹慌了 [Courtyard life + period setting + System + transmigration + farming + no saintly hero + no harem] Starting from Chapter 360. Wang Jianguo unexpectedly binds a farming game System. When he wakes up, he has transmigrated back to an era of scarce supplies, where even the smallest trivialities can spark three days of arguments. While everyone else is worrying about their next meal, he enjoys a leisurely life of farming and living like a carefree hermit. Unfortunately, he wants to lie flat, but re 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Siheyuan: From the Start, a Brigade Leader and He Yuzhu’s Maternal Uncle 四合院：开局大队长，何雨柱小舅 He transmigrated to the autumn of 1958. He Yuzhu and He Yushui’s uncle, Bai Jiefang, has arrived. Since he has returned from military service, he has been appointed head of the Juvenile Offender Reform Brigade in the capital, a deputy section-level official. The home he’s been assigned turns out to be the west wing of the central courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. Yi Zhonghai, who had been scheming all along, spends every day seething and doesn’t dare raise his voice. With all her pent-up resent 5.9kReads6.1Score191Shelves
- 34 Siheyuan: Evil Cultivator Xu Damao Invites Everyone into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner 四合院邪修许大茂请众禽入万魂幡 A mighty evil cultivator transmigrates into the body of Xu Damao, the only normal person in the courtyard. Watch as Xu Damao uses his magic to toy with the whole flock of beasts and accomplish everything his former self could only dream of! 1.5kReads6.7Score100Shelves
- 35 The Cynic of the Siheyuan Just Wants Peace and Prosperity for the Nation 四合院白眼的我只想国泰民安 Lu Chuan inherited the Byakugan of the Naruto world and possesses strength beyond the Kage. After transmigrating once again, this time to a courtyard compound, he declares that all demons and monsters are nothing but ashes before true strength. Invincible as he is, all he wants is to make greater contributions to his country… 14Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 36 Siheyuan: I Am Xu Damao’s Son 四合院：我是许大茂之子 Didn't Xu Damao have no son? So how did he end up with one? What will happen to the story when the courtyard loses one childless man and gains a mischievous little menace? 892Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 37 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Life 四合院：许大茂过日子 There are many things in life we are powerless to change, and tragedies are often the ones that endure. Xu Damao's journey through life is about striving to do things he won't regret. Highlights: smashing antiques. If you're impatient, you can start at Chapter 10. 157Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Carnival 四合院，许大茂的嘉年华 Xu Huimao learned to cook at Lanhai Technical School. After months of tossing a wok, he learned to make quite a few dishes. Seeing others repair machine tools and drive excavators, he thought learning machinery repair sounded good too... In the end, he went through every course at Lanhai Technical School. With a smattering of eighteen different skills and mastery of none, Xu Huimao somehow carved out a place for himself, building a real estate business that became the second-largest in the provi 2kReads8.1Score105Shelves
- 39 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Slap Jia Zhangshi in a Rage 四合院：开局怒扇贾张氏 [Torturing the bullies without being a do-gooder + Strike first + The bloodsucking family gets what they deserve] After waking up, Lin Jianye discovers that he has transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Fortunately, he activates the System in time, obtains a golden finger, and begins a happy life in the courtyard, enjoying all the perks and throwing his weight around. Jia Zhangshi, Qin Huairu, Yi Zhonghai, Silly Zhu: not one of them will get away. They'll all be sent to reform-th 9.4kReads6.4Score321Shelves
- 40 Siheyuan: Xu Damao, Master of the Classics 四合院：能加典的许大茂 A veteran driver of dump trucks unexpectedly transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard and becomes Xu Damao, a master of romance. As the son-in-law of a major capitalist, the road ahead is bound to be full of difficulties. Fortunately, transmigrators get a golden finger. With a proficiency panel at his disposal, let’s see how this veteran driver turns his life around in the face of adversity! This is a story about living a new life, with less hostility. If you want to see someone picking fights w 828Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: Lou Xiao'e Kisses Me from the Start 四合院：开局娄晓娥亲了我 Xu Damao is reborn in a Beijing courtyard and bound to a Pants-Crapping Redemption System. Anyone can be a good person, right? But the System turns out to be stingy as heck, so it looks like he'll have to make his fortune with his own two hands... In that turbulent era, Xu Damao stays devoted to Lou Xiao'e, takes the kids out, tends the fields, and showers his wife with affection. He even shows off his son to Silly Zhu. Life couldn't be better! Silly Zhu has no choice but to pull Banggeng over a 534Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 42 Siheyuan: I'm Not Someone Xu Damao Can Mess With 四合院：我许大茂不好惹 Xu Dabanchui never imagined that anything could be risky, but transmigrating could happen even while clearing a sewer. But if you're going to transmigrate, couldn't you become anyone else? Why did you have to become Xu Damao? I haven't done anything to anyone, so how did I end up as the villain? Fine, Yi Zhonghai, Silly Zhu, and that old deaf lady. If you won't let me live in peace, I won't let you live in peace either. Just you wait... Multiple female leads. Please look elsewhere if that's not 23.9kReads7.2Score2.1kShelves
- 43 Siheyuan: Nobody Touch My Wife 四合院之谁也别动我的老婆 3.7kReads8.4Score147Shelves
- 44 Siheyuan: Soul Transmigrated into Xu Damao, and the Courtyard Blossoms 四合院：魂穿许大茂，满院花开 [No System] [Has a Pocket Dimension] [No Excessive Violence] [Multiple Heroines] This story favors wit over brawling. There are no life-or-death fights, just the everyday lives of ordinary people against the backdrop of a great era. The pocket dimension is useful, but not overpowered. Xu Damao: “Should I trade twenty jin of cornmeal for a blue-and-white porcelain covered bowl, or for a pretty wife to spend the night with me? Only children answer either-or questions. Why shouldn't I have both?” I 3kReads7.7Score148Shelves
- 45 The Mastermind Behind the Siheyuan 四合院之幕后推手 He transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard, awakens a golden finger, and starts out as head of the security office. The System gives him just one mission: punish every beast in the courtyard! “Qin Huairu, why does everyone I leech off end up having bad luck?” “Jia Zhangshi, everything you said to curse other people has come true for you instead!” “Deaf Old Lady, your secret's out. From now on, go live with your precious son, Yi Zhonghai!” Years later, the beasts ask a soul-sear 65Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 46 I Transmigrated as Xu Damao, and the System Is Forcing Me to Become an Entertainment Mogul 穿越许大茂系统逼我成为文娱大佬 [Alternate-history period piece. There isn't much about the courtyard compound, so don't read if that's what you're looking for!!! The story starts on the mainland, moves to Hong Kong midway through, and may head to Europe and America later. One female lead, no harem, no stealing another man's wife!] A pretty boy transmigrates to 1951 and becomes Xu Damao. With a sign-in System bound to him from the start, he stops being a troublemaker and becomes the child other parents point to as an example. 1.3kReads8.5Score102Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: I'm Nothing Like Xu Damao 四合院：我可不是许大茂 Xu Damao transmigrates into Xu Damao. Fortunately, he gets a quest-based System to give him something to look forward to. He completes missions, earns rewards, and heads to Xiangjiang with Ezi. While Xu Damao is in Xiangjiang, the Courtyard is still in chaos. When An Jiahe, a twisted and violent man, barges into the courtyard, a new story begins to unfold. In short, he becomes a big shot in the 1960s, gets into real estate in the 1970s, makes it in entertainment in the 1980s, and gives back to s 4.7kReads8.1Score135Shelves
- 48 Reborn as Xu Damao, I Refuse to Consummate the Marriage with Lou Xiaoe 重生许大茂，娄晓娥不圆房 [Period drama + witty and humorous + dark doctor + devoted husband + raising kids + villain + slice of life] At seventy-seven, Xu Damao is reborn on the night of his wedding to Lou Xiao'e, when he was twenty-three. With the help of the Dark Doctor System, he changes his life, makes up for past regrets, and rides the wave of economic reform to achieve greatness... 5.1kReads6.7Score356Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: You Want to Retire Here? Did I Agree? 四合院：想养老，我同意了吗？ Warning: The protagonist is no saint and can be a little petty. Cross him, and you’ll have to watch your back every moment in case he gets revenge! Zhang Shaoan accidentally transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard after saving someone. He had planned to live a peaceful life and use his golden finger to make sure his family had plenty to eat and drink. He would lie low until the arrival of a new era, then make his move. But he never expected that people would keep assuming he was an 9.5kReads6.1Score264Shelves
- 50 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 623Reads5.5Score—Shelves
