Novels like Siheyuan: I Live in the Courtyard Next Door at No. 94
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Siheyuan: I Live in the Courtyard Next Door at No. 94, best match first.
- 151 Siheyuan, 1961: I'm Neighbors with a Bunch of Beasts 四合院1961我和禽兽做邻居 603Reads5.7Score10914d adds
- 152 The Four Courtyards: Cao Tan's Life Raising Kids 四个院：曹叹的带娃人生 A story about the protagonist transmigrating into a courtyard. The focus is on enjoying life and raising kids, with no hostility... The focus is on doing whatever seems fun... The focus is on enjoying life as a parent... 617Reads—Score11914d adds
- 153 Siheyuan: I, Bang Geng, Will Never Steal a Chicken! 四合院，我棒梗绝不偷鸡！ When Wang Jianguo wakes up, he is astonished to discover that he has transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Now he faces an impossible choice: should he steal the old hen from Xu Damao’s house or not? Just then, the Super God Choice System successfully binds to him... A different kind of courtyard story, and the remarkable life of Bang Geng, all in I, Bang Geng, Will Never Steal a Chicken from the Courtyard! 176Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 154 Siheyuan: Starting a Fight Against the Japanese with My Little Sister 四合院：从带妹妹杀鬼子开始 Chen Feng, a battlefield medic in a secret unit, was reborn and transmigrated back to early 1945, just as his parents were murdered. Taking his younger sister, the only family he had left, he made his way into the capital to continue fighting the war. 58Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 155 Siheyuan: I Woke Up One Day and Had Transmigrated 四合院：一觉醒来，穿越了 I woke up and found myself in such a miserable situation: fleeing famine... What a terrible era... Can’t you just let me live in peace... The Capital... I’m coming... How is this going to end...? 3.4kReads6.4Score12214d adds
- 156 Siheyuan: Blind Dates Make You Stronger 四合院：相亲就变强 [No saintly heroine] [Cooking-focused] [Plenty of everyday life] [Putting Yi Jia in his place] [Leisurely pace] [Don’t read if you dislike it] He is accidentally reborn as He Yuzhu, only to find that He Daqing has run off, leaving him and little Yushui behind. He Yuzhu goes straight to the police and arranges for Yushui to be returned to He Daqing, so she can enjoy the fatherly love she never had in her previous life and stop dragging her brother down! Back at the courtyard, he sees a family arr 21.2kReads7.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 157 Siheyuan: I'm Only Eighteen, and You Want Me to Support You in Your Old Age? 四合院：年仅十八就让我养老？ After Peng Guodong's soul transmigrates into the Siheyuan, people covet his two rooms and frame him as a traitor. From the start, the neighborhood committee comes to check on him. After great joy and sorrow, three deaths, and one serious illness, he clears his name and gets a job. But then he's set up and sent to guard the storeroom? What the hell! Are they trying to make me retire here? I'm only eighteen! This is a city-life growth story, not a face-slapping power fantasy. It's not easy being a 2.9kReads6.4Score10014d adds
- 158 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Demand My Share of He Daqing's Estate 四合院：开局找何大清分家产 He Zhu, a 21st-century unemployed man who stayed home, was called useless by his wife and daughter. At the end of his rope, he got incredibly lucky and transmigrated into Silly Zhu from The Beasts of the Siheyuan. In this life, I won't be useless. 28.1kReads5.9Score1.5k14d adds
- 159 In the Sixties, I Livestreamed Raising Kids and Became a God 人在六十年代，直播养娃成神 On the winter solstice night of 2025, Li Wei, a father working away from home in Dongguan, was celebrating with his three young children when a strange phenomenon suddenly struck. He transmigrated alone to a run-down courtyard house deep in Beijing's Nanluoguxiang neighborhood in 1960. Before him were grimy brick walls, window paper caked with thick layers of grime, and half a foot of snow piled in the courtyard. The air reeked of coal smoke, pickled vegetables, and age-old mildew. This was no c —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Siheyuan: I Won’t Be Silly Zhu! 四合院：我不当傻柱！ [Changing the plot + multiple dramas and films + System] What? I choked to death on cola and transmigrated into Silly Zhu, the fool everyone takes advantage of? Whoever wants this lousy role can have it! Qin Huairu plays the victim to beg for food? I'll show her the door! Yi Zhonghai tries to guilt-trip me? I'll flip the table and fight back! He Yuzhu is no Silly Zhu! Watch him climb, one step at a time, to the peak of life! The full story is even better! Read it and see! 5.9kReads5.5Score25114d adds
- 161 Siheyuan: The System Updates Every Year, and I Become Invincible 四合院：系统每年更新，我无敌了 [Twin Star System + Spoiling His Little Sister + Multiple Heroines + Mildly Violent, Mostly Everyday Life!] Just because he made a few snarky comments about Silly Zhu while reading a novel, construction foreman Yang Fei transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard! A mother who died young from the start, a father who ran off with a widow, and a little sister to drag along... Isn't this exactly Silly Zhu's setup? The Great Dao couldn't stand to watch, so it immediately gave him two Syste 25.1kReads6.5Score1.8k14d adds
- 162 When Yi Zhonghai Gets a Grandson 当易中海有了孙子 He had been an inconspicuous old eunuch working in a service room in the Qing palace, named Yi Zhonghai. He never expected that after falling asleep, he would wake up in a courtyard house as its First Master. At his feet, a young woman was kneeling and weeping. She was the First Master's niece, and she had a child with her. It turned out the First Master had refused to let the girl care for him in his old age, thinking she couldn't be relied on. But he didn't care about that. Now he had a daught 2.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 163 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Is No One to Mess With When He Has a Dual-Transmigration Portal 四合院：有双穿门的傻柱不好惹 Silly Zhu travels through a pair of portals from 1951 to the future year of 2011, where he witnesses his own fate with his very eyes. From that moment on, a brand-new He Yuzhu is born. No one gets to take advantage of me. Whoever crosses me, I'll kill! 16kReads7.3Score56014d adds
- 164 Siheyuan: I Woke Up as Silly Zhu 四合院：起床发现自己成了傻柱 [Buddhist-minded male lead] + [one female lead] + [bystanders watching the drama] + [excellent cooking] + [no hoarding a courtyard house] + [no going to Hong Kong] + [no collecting antiques] He Tianci, a university student in the 21st century, transmigrates into He Yuzhu in the early 1950s, during the fiery era. He marries his master's daughter, Luo Yanran, and they have several adorable children. He changes Silly Zhu's life, relying on the cooking skills he learned with the help of his golden f 6kReads6.0Score16114d adds
- 165 Siheyuan: They’re Bullying the Childless? I Wipe Out the Retirement Gang from the Start 四合院：吃绝户？开局灭了养老团 Zhang Jianhua was orphaned at a young age and grew up in a courtyard house with Sun Dazhuang. The two friends later enlisted and went to war together. On the battlefield, Dazhuang died protecting him, and Zhang Jianhua promised to take care of Dazhuang's mother in her old age. Badly wounded, Zhang Jianhua eventually left the army and returned to the courtyard house. The moment he arrived, he saw the vultures helping themselves to everything the Zhang and Sun families owned. The Jia family had ta —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 Siheyuan: Starting in 1941 四合院：从1941年开始 In this life, the first thing He Yuzhu does is keep his mother from dying, so He Yushui can grow up with a mother. A family should stay together, every last one of them. Of course, he also plans to secretly get up to a few things, but... 19.4kReads6.9Score86314d adds
- 167 Siheyuan: With Heaven-Defying Comprehension, I Carpet-Bomb the Place with Fuel-Air Explosives 四合院：悟性逆天，云爆弹洗地 [Transmigrate + military industry System + wish-fulfillment story + siheyuan courtyard house + no self-righteous do-gooder + clean up the White Elephant with fuel-air bombs + beat up the scoundrels] After an accident, Lin Zhou is incredibly lucky to have his soul transmigrate to the 1960s. Bound to the strongest System of heaven-defying comprehension, he returns from studying in the Bear's territory with the entire arsenal of military technology at his fingertips. Taking on the mission of nation 520Reads6.1Score17714d adds
- 168 Siheyuan: I, Silly Zhu, Refuse to Be a Total Sucker 四合院：我傻柱绝不当大冤种 He transmigrates into Silly Zhu in Love in the Courtyard, and it feels like the sky is falling. Fortunately, the original story’s timeline hasn’t started yet, so there’s still time to change everything. You think I’m going to support you in your old age just like in the original story? Dream on! 12.3kReads7.0Score50814d adds
- 169 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? 16.9kReads6.7Score65114d adds
- 170 I Thought It Was the Apocalypse, but You Dropped Me into a Siheyuan 以为是末世，你给我干四合院来啦 A hundred thousand words have been deleted, and the book is still being revised. Some chapters don’t quite follow from what came before, and I’m truly sorry. I thought the apocalypse had arrived. Who knew I’d be sent to the world of the courtyard houses? Is this the apocalypse? Perhaps it really is for some people. But I have a pocket dimension and plenty of food. This place is paradise. 15.7kReads6.4Score74414d adds
- 171 Siheyuan: Building a Harmonious Revival with a Steel Dragon 四合院：以钢铁巨龙造和谐复兴 [Siheyuan] [Outsmarting the Retirement Clique] [Reforming the Yan Family] [Industrial Boom] After transmigrating to the 1958 setting of Fowl-Filled Siheyuan, he became the Yan family's eldest son, Yan Jiecheng. Old Yan wants to count out the pickles I get, one by one? I'll flip the table. Starting today, I'm Yan Jiecheng, and I call the shots in the Yan household! First, he split up the retirement clique, bringing He Yuzhu and Xu Damao over to his side to create a new iron triangle. Yan Jiecheng 913Reads6.3Score11514d adds
- 172 Siheyuan: The Short-Tempered Liu Guangtian 四合院之暴躁刘光天 A young modern man transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan. No manners, no morals: two strokes and it's a fight, two dots and a strength stroke and it's done! (Check out my profile for completed Siheyuan novels!) 118.6kReads8.2Score8.7k14d adds
- 173 Siheyuan: I Start Killing Japanese Soldiers While Fleeing for My Life 四合院：从逃难路上杀鬼子开始 Su Yu, a small-town police officer, was reborn in Jin Province in 1940, just as the Japanese launched a sweep through the area. His father was captured by the Japanese and forced into military service, and his mother died of illness. After personally killing his enemies and the Japanese soldiers, Su Yu took his younger brother and sister to the capital to seek refuge with their second uncle. Along the way, he killed Japanese soldiers and traitors, seized supplies, and supported the troops fighti 19.3kReads7.7Score81914d adds
- 174 Siheyuan: There's a Shopping Mall Inside Me 四合院之我的体内有商场 An ordinary modern person who can’t do anything accidentally transmigrates to the early 1950s. What? My wife is 1.9 meters tall, fair-skinned and beautiful, with long legs, and she’s so afraid I’ll leave her that she acts timidly around me. Every beauty crosses my path through no choice of her own, and I can only take the secret of my golden finger to the grave. 17.8kReads6.0Score1k14d adds
- 175 Transmigrate to the Siheyuan, and I Want the Final Say 穿越四合院，我想说了算 Lin Xiangdong muddled through his whole life and had nothing to show for it by the time he grew old. Then he died unexpectedly and muddle-headedly transmigrated into a courtyard-house world, becoming a fourteen-year-old boy who lives with his grandparents. With so few people in his family, he is constantly bullied, and the retirement clique has its eye on the Lin family’s house. Since I’m here now, it’s time to reshuffle the deck. 2.6kReads8.0Score12514d adds
- 176 Siheyuan: An Onlooker Laughs as He Watches the Fools 四合院：吃瓜群众笑看众禽 Han Guodong, a bystander who loved watching the action, was knocked into the water while watching a child fall in. After saving the child, he unexpectedly gained a sea-island dimension! Before he could even celebrate, he noticed a “countdown” floating in the sky above the island. Han Guodong, who had spent years browsing all kinds of novel sites, assumed the countdown meant an apocalypse or some other disaster was coming. So he began racing against time to stock up on survival supplies! When the 504Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 177 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Take My Little Sister and Flee the Famine in Beijing 四合院：开局带妹妹逃荒四九城 Su Jianjun transmigrates to the famine-stricken year of 1960 as a teenage refugee, with his younger sister in tow. They are still hundreds of kilometers from the capital, and they have already run out of food. Just as they are about to starve to death on the road, he acquires a pocket world at the critical moment. He can farm, raise livestock, and even strengthen his body. With the pocket world to help him, Su Jianjun leads his sister through the famine and makes it to the capital. He also uses 8.7kReads6.2Score36514d adds
- 178 Siheyuan: Who Can Be More Shameless Than Me? 四合院：谁能有我贱 Qin Yuan, a bastard who got struck by lightning for tricking a little girl, woke up to find he had transmigrated into the world of a 1949-era courtyard house. He was also bound to a martial-arts version of the Big Villain System, and got Xiao Li’s Flying Dagger and Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill from the start. Watch as Qin Yuan wreaks havoc in the courtyard-house world and cons countless people. 25.9kReads7.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 179 Siheyuan: A Cutthroat Scheme, a Good Life with My Sister 四合院：天坑局，带妹过上好日子 When Lin Qing woke up, he had transmigrated to the late 1950s, into the world of Love in the Courtyard. He heard his younger sisters crying. It was New Year’s Eve, and his three sisters were gathered around a pot of cornmeal gruel, bawling. Their parents were dead, the three girls had no one to care for them, and he himself was seriously ill. Faced with a hopeless start, Lin Qing refused to give up. As time passed, life for Lin Qing’s family kept getting better. Jia Zhangshi: “You heartless wret 45Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 180 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Rescue My Stunning Sister-in-Law 四合院：开局拯救绝美小姨子 [Multiple female leads, no backing down from a fight, some original characters, plus characters from the stories of Love in a Siheyuan and Under the Zhengyang Gate.] Lin Ping'an accidentally died of sudden cardiac arrest and transmigrated to a parallel world centered around a siheyuan courtyard. In his previous life, a bride price of 300,000 yuan couldn't buy him love. Now, he suddenly had a wife. What he never expected was that his free wife looked just like the Queen of the Women's Kingdom. Af 14.6kReads7.8Score95014d adds
- 181 Siheyuan: Reborn in 1952 四合院，傻柱重生1952 The male lead unexpectedly awakens memories of his past life and learns that he used to be Sha Zhu. After waking up, he finds himself back in 1952, when Sha Zhu is at his lowest point. See how the male lead changes the lives of everyone in the courtyard! 40.2kReads8.3Score3.6k14d adds
- 182 Siheyuan: I Have an Intelligence System 四合院：我有情报系统 Lin Xiaoman transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan and is faced with a family split from the start. Fortunately, he has an intelligence System that provides him with a steady stream of information about the Siheyuan world. From then on, he knows everyone’s little secrets in the Siheyuan. At the steel mill, he rises smoothly through the ranks thanks to the information he receives in advance. 17.6kReads6.5Score92214d adds
- 183 Siheyuan: The Simpleton 四合院，傻小子 A special forces soldier is reborn in a courtyard house in Beijing and obtains a System. Since the previous occupant was an idiot, I’ll keep acting like one. Idiots are safe, and major events won’t affect me. Fools are blessed with good fortune. 6.5kReads8.4Score21814d adds
- 184 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Confess to the Nation That I Transmigrated 四合院：开局向国家坦白穿越者 Transmigrating into a siheyuan at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang in 1951. I wake up to a hopeless situation from the start, locked up by a bunch of beasts, who take all my food! They really want me dead. The first thing Lin Xiao does after breaking free is go to the garrison and confess that he's a transmigrator. Perhaps his golden finger won't change much about this Red-Hot Era if he keeps it to himself. But in the hands of a wise person, it could be more powerful than anyone could imagine. When Lin Xiao 7.7kReads6.8Score24914d adds
- 185 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
- 186 Siheyuan: I Really Didn't Mean to Steal Her Away 四合院：我真没想截胡 This book features [low angst] + [mostly everyday life] + [a little humor] + [a hint of a System] + [a slow start] + [down with the overpowered hero] … Xia Mo transmigrated three years ago, but only just made it into the courtyard where everyone’s out for themselves. He never intended to steal anyone’s love, but they practically shoved it into his arms. Who could resist? The System is a bit of a weirdo, too. It insists he go begging for food. Fine! If I have to beg, I have to beg. As long as I 754Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Siheyuan: My Wife Can Move Mountains and Overwhelm the World 四合院：我的老婆力拔山兮气盖世 Under the rare celestial alignment of seven stars, Zhou Chen transmigrates to the world of the courtyard houses. From the start, he steals Silly Zhu's blind date. He thought the System would be his greatest advantage in this new world. But later, he discovers that it might actually be his rather fierce wife. 13.7kReads6.7Score70514d adds
- 188 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
- 189 Siheyuan: Starting in 1948 四合院，从1948年开始 After Ji Chang'an died of a terminal illness, having given up on treatment, he transmigrated. What he didn't expect was to arrive in the world of Love in the Courtyard. After leading his family through a famine migration to the capital, where they settled down, Ji Chang'an also learned that he had arrived in the world of Love in the Courtyard. 5.5kReads8.6Score13914d adds
- 190 Siheyuan: From the Start in 1954, I Live Life to the Fullest 四合院：开局54，浪到飞起 [Completed + one heroine + lighthearted + zany + technological development + engineer] Liu Guangqi transmigrates into the world of the courtyard and becomes the eldest son of Liu Haizhong, an aspiring official. Yi Zhonghai tries to teach him, but Liu Guangqi is stubborn to the core. First, he gets into a good school. Then he becomes an engineer. Finally, he marries a beautiful wife. With his sign-in System, he watches the courtyard's troublemakers roar in frustration. 932Reads5.0Score—14d adds
- 191 The System Told You to Do Good Deeds, and You Stole Qin Huairu's Man? 系统让你做好事，你截胡秦淮茹？ [Low on angst]+ [Lighthearted and hilarious] Luo Fan transmigrates into a courtyard compound and gets the Benevolence System. As long as he does good deeds every day, he earns rewards! Everyone in this compound is a beast, and you expect me to do good deeds? I already had to swallow my pride before I transmigrated, and now the System expects me to keep swallowing it? Then what was the point of transmigrating? From the start, Jia Dongxu is on a blind date with Qin Huairu, and Luo Fan swoops in to 26Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 192 Siheyuan: I'm He Yuzhu's Cousin 四合院：我是何雨柱他表叔 [Save Silly Zhu] + [Crime Solving] + [Taking on the Troublemakers] + [Taking Down the Retirement Faction] + [Two Female Leads] + [Hong Kong] + [Traveling the World] Lu Zhan transmigrates into the world of The Courtyard Is Full of Beasts and gains the ability to hear the inner thoughts of all things. With this ability, Lu Zhan starts out as an ordinary junior police officer and steadily climbs to the peak of life. On the outside, he can arrest spies and capture murderers. At home, he can outsmart 23.3kReads7.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 193 Torturing the Birds in the Siheyuan? I'm a Professional 四合院虐禽？专业的 My new work is here! You're all welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 4.3kReads6.3Score10614d adds
- 194 Starting at Zhengyang Gate, Then Entering the Siheyuan 开局正阳门再入四合院 The ordinary is the norm, and the extraordinary is the exception. Life was never full of so much pointless crap. Being able to eat your fill is happiness; it's only when people have full stomachs and nothing to do that these unexpected complications arise. After transmigrating to a chaotic era, he arrives in 1948 and becomes a neighbor behind the Zhengyangmen Tavern. He supports a family of five, his older sister, younger brother, and younger sisters, with a tricycle, marries the stunning Qin Hu 18.5kReads7.7Score93214d adds
- 195 Siheyuan: It Starts with Bowing to Yi Zhonghai and Shouting 'Long Live!' 四合院：跪拜易中海喊万岁开始 [Period setting + System + revenge + feel-good story] An ordinary person's life with a courtyard-house twist. Don't read a few chapters and complain that the plot is dragging. An ordinary person needs time to adjust to transmigrating, okay? Qin Huairu is out by chapter 60-something, and Silly Zhu by chapter 87. Most importantly, it takes time for their mindset to change. From the start, he bows to Yi Zhonghai, the “God of Morality,” and calls him “Long live, long live, ten thousand times long li 46.7kReads5.9Score3.3k14d adds
- 196 Siheyuan: Chen Xueru Is a Great Ally 四合院：陈雪茹是个好帮手 (A mash-up of period dramas + multiple heroines + plenty of shenanigans + ...) I arrive in the early years of the People's Republic and get up to all kinds of mischief in period dramas. It's a little early, sure, but there are perks: all the heroines and supporting female characters are waiting for me! This is the story of the handsome young Zeng Dagen as he “collects” women in period dramas. 6.5kReads6.6Score40614d adds
- 197 Siheyuan: Starting from Sesame Alley 四合院从芝麻胡同开始 Courtyard houses, Sesame Lane, The New World, Glorious Times, A Woman Below Zhengyang Gate, Camel Grass, and more. Yan Kuan is the unlucky, lame man who becomes a son-in-law in Sesame Lane. Fortunately, there’s still time to change everything. He gradually discovers that this world is no ordinary place: characters from countless TV dramas and films can be found here, including Liu Rusi, Dao Meilan, Tian Dan, Qin Huairu, Mu Chunhua, Bai Ling, Liu Ying, Chen Xueru, and more. A happy life awaits Ya 5.3kReads7.2Score25614d adds
- 198 Siheyuan: The Young Red Agent of the Underground Transit Station 四合院：地下交通站的红小鬼 At the age of twelve, Lin Mo distinguished himself with repeated outstanding service to the cause as Beiping was peacefully liberated. With his own System space, he also swept up the Nationalist army's assets and planes across the entire capital. After liberation, he became an auxiliary member of the country's intelligence service, providing vital intelligence time and again in operations to root out enemy spies. Later, he took the post of head of security at a steel mill, tracking down enemy ag 1.2kReads5.7Score—14d adds
- 199 Transmigrating to a Beijing Siheyuan in 1937 穿越1937北平四合院 In 2025, a thunderbolt tore through time and space, sending a folk Taoist priest's soul into a dilapidated temple on the outskirts of Beiping in 1937. He became a ten-year-old novice who had been sent into the mountains by his parents to support his younger siblings. He has a rescue System and a ten-cubic-meter storage space at his side, and knows a little about ancient arts. But all he faces is a drafty, leaky temple, a life without enough to eat, and the looming fall of Beiping. 311Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Siheyuan: Reborn as He Yuzhu, Defying Fate! 四合院：重生何雨柱，逆天改命！ He transmigrates by accident into the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming the hapless He Yuzhu. Fortunately, he arrives early, in the winter of 1950. This is also the year He Yuzhu and his sister are abandoned by their father. He Yuzhu is fifteen, and He Yushui is five. This is also the year He Yuzhu starts out as an apprentice. But this time, he is no longer the chef Silly Zhu from the original story. Instead, He Yuzhu takes a very different path, sitting for China's first college entrance —Reads—Score2.8k14d adds
