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- 1 Siheyuan: Back from the Battlefield 四合院之战场归来 Li Wu, a member of the Jiaolong Assault Team involved in an evacuation operation, transmigrates to the Korean War into the body of a soldier wounded by a shell. His injuries are so severe that he is forced to leave the military and return home. And so begins yet another familiar story of fighting back against troublesome neighbors, just like countless other web novels... 50Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: Wish at Yonghe Temple and Ruthlessly Deal with the Courtyard's Vermin 四合院：雍和宫式许愿，暴虐众禽 [System + Tormenting the Courtyard Birds + Strengthening the Nation + Original Single Heroine] After wishing for a good wife at Yonghe Temple, Zhou Zhengqing got incredibly lucky: he arrived in the world of Birds in the Courtyard with a wish-granting System. The wish-granting System has a simple function: fulfill other people’s wishes to grow stronger. And since the Courtyard Birds are at the center of the world, fulfilling their wishes brings extremely generous rewards. Zhou Zhengqing didn’t wa 367Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: Second Uncle's Greatest Joy in Life Is Helping Others 四合院：二大爷生平最好助人为乐 Liu Hai had just passed the civil service exam in the 21st century. After having a wild time with his buddies, he woke up to find that some mysterious force had dumped him in the courtyard house at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang in the capital. He had become Liu Haizhong, the ugly comic-relief character from Courtyard House, whose family supposedly lived in perfect harmony. As it happened, his eldest son, Liu Guangqi, had secretly become the live-in son-in-law of a minor factory official without telling h 4.7kReads7.4Score140Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: Rewards for Taking Down the Birds 四合院：灭禽有奖 Reborn, and the old deaf lady comes looking for trouble from the start. Then I’ll take her out. If Yi Zhonghai and Silly Zhu want revenge, I’ll take them out too. With the Retirement Squad wiped out, the remaining scoundrels start to panic. 639Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: This Abandoned Baby Gets Stronger by Changing His Life 四合院：我小弃婴改变人生就变强 He transmigrates into the world of a period drama, becoming a baby from the start and getting adopted by He Yuzhu. He also activates the Life-Changing Makes You Stronger System! As long as He Weiguo can change other people’s lives, he’ll receive all kinds of talents and rewards! What he doesn’t know is that his father, He Yuzhu, can actually hear his thoughts. By secretly listening to his son’s thoughts, He Yuzhu becomes a hot young prospect in the capital, with countless women desperate to marr 1.3kReads7.8Score104Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Pick Up Jia Zhangshi? 四合院：开局捡到贾张氏？ Transmigrating into Love in the Courtyard, set in the 1950s from the start, he finds himself in bed with 42-year-old Jia Zhangshi as soon as he arrives? And he’s supposed to marry her? What’s more, Jia Zhangshi is only with him for his two houses! Call off the engagement. It has to be called off! Wang Jianguo activates the Life Choices System. His life path becomes clear at a glance, and the rewards are just right. 347Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 A Life of Formulas in the Siheyuan 四合院里的公式人生 A little man is born during the Republican era and lives through the Republic, the founding of the nation, and all the periods that follow. See how he makes his way from turbulent times into the new century. 16.2kReads6.7Score485Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: This Old Fox Is Far Too Cautious 四合院：这个老六太苟了 [System + pocket dimension + cultivation + one female lead + case-solving + enemy agents + free shopping] [A feel-good power fantasy: no annoying angst, no humiliation, no self-righteous saintliness, and no leaving revenge for tomorrow.] Yun Yi, a chuuni hitman from the twenty-first century, is reborn as a police officer with a special identity and discovers that he has landed in the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. Watch as this cunning schemer pranks the whole flock of birds, goes on a free sho 16.6kReads7.6Score807Shelves
- 9 A New He Yuzhu of the Siheyuan 四合院之新何雨柱 A modern couch potato wakes up and transmigrates to the 1950s. If he had to transmigrate, fine, but he even turns into the hapless Silly Zhu. Follow the protagonist as he rewrites his fate in this fiery era and lives a life unlike anyone else's. 34kReads8.0Score1.6kShelves
- 10 My Harem of Beauties in Siheyuan 四合院我的美人窝 Granny Jia is sent off to the countryside, the Second and Third Masters are tricked into going to support the Third Front, the First Master is duped into a car accident and killed, and the deaf old woman is raided and extorted. He even gets Xu Damao and Yan Jiecheng into danmei... This transmigrator is having a blast in the courtyard. 11.2kReads5.4Score494Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu's Beast-Taming Space 四合院，何雨柱的御兽空间 My Beast Taming System is unlike any other: it can only form contracts with human beasts. Beasts of the courtyard house, are you ready? Here I come! At first, He Yuzhu lets his beasts grow at their own pace. Later, they slaughter their way through everything, make China’s might known in international wars, and repay He Yuzhu in kind. The sons and daughters of China are all dragons and phoenixes! Less hostility, no angst, and fewer violent clashes in the courtyard house. If this isn’t your thing, 1.1kReads8.0Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: Stir Up Trouble? Dogs Don't, but I Do! 四合院：搞事？狗不搞，我搞！ [Ensemble Cast]+ [Mild Violence]+ [Stirs Up Trouble on Purpose]+ [Mastermind Behind the Scenes]+ [Mostly Everyday Life]+ [Fun and Hilarious] Qian Duoduo accidentally transmigrates into the world of Full of Love. His golden finger gives him two starter gift packs, then runs off. At five years old, Qian Duoduo opens a growth gift pack and obtains an Emotion Magnifier. From then on, the courtyard gains a little demon, and the city of Beijing gets a “little rascal.” At ten, he obtains the puppet Cha 22.9kReads7.7Score882Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan's Dual Sign-In System 四合院之双签系统 [Courtyard setting + golden finger + dual transmigration + marriage before love + time travel] If you can handle a lot, start from the beginning and get the complete story. If you can’t stand being wronged, I suggest jumping ahead to Chapter 60! By a twist of fate, two strangers transmigrate together into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Bound tightly together by the System, they have no choice but to do their best to play the part of a loving couple in order to survive in their new surroundi 43kReads6.9Score2kShelves
- 14 Siheyuan: I See the Warmth and Coldness of Human Nature 四合院：我在四合院看人情冷暖 A courtyard story without all the hostility: Old Yi has a son, the Jia family has a hardworking and self-reliant daughter-in-law, and Da Mao will have a son someday. Yushui no longer lacks love. So what will happen to the other families? Follow Wang Weimin, an ordinary man, as he climbs step by step to the top and makes his way onto the world stage. 4.2kReads6.1Score100Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu's Remarkable Life 四合院：何雨柱的精彩人生 After possessing Silly Zhu, the protagonist watches his entire life unfold from the perspective of an observer. Silly Zhu spends his whole life being schemed against by the scoundrels in the courtyard. In the end, they swindle him out of everything he owns, and the three siblings led by the notorious thief Bang Geng drive him out. He freezes to death beneath an overpass, his body almost devoured by wild dogs. At last, the protagonist takes Silly Zhu's place and gets a second chance at life. See 21.3kReads8.1Score670Shelves
- 16 Siheyuan: The Carefree Life of a Villain 四合院：恶棍的潇洒生活 [No harem, prickly and cunning male lead, somewhat overpowered, laid-back everyday life, stockpiling supplies, decisive and ruthless, no bleeding-heart heroine] After waking up in a Beijing courtyard home in 1960, Shen He decides he'll never be a pushover again. I have a staff that can sweep away every injustice in the world. I have a staff that can make every scoundrel and spy tremble. I have a staff that can let the light of justice shine everywhere. Look... this is the Staff of Justi 25.5kReads8.2Score1kShelves
- 17 Siheyuan: What I Say Goes in This Canteen 四合院，这个食堂我说了算 Zhang Renkang inexplicably finds himself in the world of Love in the Courtyard. He works his way up from a lowly kitchen helper to become the cafeteria director. What? Silly Zhu wants to cause trouble? Give him a beating and kick him out of the cafeteria. What? Qin Huairu wants a free ride? Ha, I won't do it unless I get something out of it. What? Yi Zhonghai wants me to take care of him in his old age? Dream on. I throw in my lot with Li Weimin and thrive. Watch Zhang Renkang take on the whole 9.2kReads7.6Score295Shelves
- 18 Xu Damao's Story Begins in the Siheyuan 许大茂从四合院开始 The courtyard is just where Xu Damao's story begins. How could an era of dramatic change and burning passion go by without me, in the prime of my youth? See how Xu Damao, once a genuine hypocrite and villain, and his two little companions build lives unlike any other. With an unreliable little System, we're not counting on him. The missions are yours, so what do they have to do with me? We'll make our own decisions and live our own lives! (A note: this is a slow-burn story that spans a long peri 2.1kReads5.8Score—Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: My Fishing System Is Anything but Proper 四合院，我的钓鱼系统不正经 I wake up to find I've arrived in the 1950s, in Love in the Courtyard. As a man with a golden finger, is it too much to expect to be good at everything? Copying machine tools and building tanks are child's play. More importantly, under my leadership, the Dragon Kingdom will enter the age of standardized industrialization thirty years early and achieve its great goal of becoming the world's factory fifty years ahead of schedule. When the Indians cross the border, they won't be greeted by a three- 15.8kReads7.3Score526Shelves
- 20 The Old Sixth Doctor in the Siheyuan 四合院里的老六医生 A medical PhD from the 21st century arrives in the 1950s. His mother has just passed away, and his father has started a new family in the Northeast. He studies hard, gets into a technical secondary school, and is assigned to the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill. He moves into the compound at No. 95 Hongxing Street. Just as he enters, he runs into a general meeting of the residents. Will he let them have their way? 42.7kReads8.5Score1.6kShelves
- 21 Siheyuan: The Greatest Livestock Breeder 四合院：最牛牲畜养殖人 [No harem protagonist + fierce and ruthless + a little devious + somewhat invincible + easygoing daily life + early-stage growth + decisive and merciless + no saintly do-gooder] My name is Bai Baoshan. I’m 45 years old. I’m a good person. All I know how to do is raise livestock. Don’t believe me? I’ll raise some and show you. And so... Every black pig weighed over 400 jin... The cattle and sheep were all plump and healthy, with delicious meat... Even the dairy cows and goats sprayed milk 11.3kReads8.6Score407Shelves
- 22 Starting as a Deputy Section Chief in Siheyuan 四合院从副科长开始 [Security Department Deputy Chief from the Start] [Sign-In Rewards] [Well-Connected] [All I Want Is to Be a Lazy Fish] After transmigrating into the chaotic world of the Four-Nine City courtyard compound, he starts out as the deputy chief of the steel mill's security department! Zhang Jianjun arrives in the central courtyard with his own pocket space, where he witnesses Jia Zhangshi whining about being poor and leeching off others, Silly Zhu using moral blackmail, and Yi Zhonghai plotting behi 56.8kReads6.4Score3.3kShelves
- 23 Resistance War in the Siheyuan: A Dog by Day, a Wolf by Night 四合院抗战：白天是狗，晚上是狼 By day, he is Lu Chengan, a puppet army company commander under the Japanese. He bows and scrapes before the Japanese, calls his fellow puppet soldiers brothers, and pretends not to notice the contemptuous looks from the civilians. He leads his men through drills, patrols, and inspections, occasionally cooperating with the Japanese in their so-called “security enhancement campaign.” He puts on a show when he has to and turns a blind eye when he can. His company includes a platoon leader named 162Reads7.4Score113Shelves
- 24 I’m Here to Set the Chaotic Siheyuan Straight 朕来整顿禽满四合院 After Zhu Yuanzhang died, he transmigrated into the body of a junior official. When he got home, he found that His wife was Empress Ma, doing laundry for someone else. His son was Zhu Biao, with a broken leg. His grandson was Zhu Xiongying, skin and bones. The so-called “good neighbors” in the compound stole from his family, insulted his wife, and schemed against his son. The whole place was full of beasts. Then the System arrived, bringing him master-level Chinese medicine, a farm he could c 1.2kReads6.1Score—Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: Returning from the Mass Grave to Collect Blood Debts 四合院：乱葬岗归来，血债血偿 At eighteen, Lu Jianjun is framed and nearly left to die in the wilderness, but by sheer luck, he survives. After that brush with death, he sees through the schemes and selfish motives of every household in the courtyard. Returning to the compound with the experience and livelihood skills he accumulated in his previous life, all he wants is to keep his own life steady, earn an honest living with his own hands, avoid the endless conflicts around him, protect the people he cares about, and carve o 135Reads7.4Score136Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: Getting Rich Quietly 四合院：闷声发大财 Courtyard Life #Period Fiction #Comedy #Feel-Good Fiction #Old Fox #Harem #Farming Fiction He transmigrated to 1952 and became Chen Yuanshan, an apprentice at Fengzeyuan. His father was a martyr and left him 13 million in old currency and two main rooms. He thought he could lie flat, but the courtyard was full of beasts. Jia Zhangshi sat on the ground every day, wailing, “Old Jia! Someone’s bullying me!” Silly Zhu called every woman “Sister Qin” and beat up Xu Damao whenever he saw him. Xu Damao 14.8kReads5.3Score442Shelves
- 27 Siheyuan: Getting Better with Age, If You Can Do It, Step Up 四合院：越活越牛，谁行谁上 Song Yan, a top-ranked Honor of Kings streamer, dies suddenly during a livestream and transmigrates to the era of “Beasts in the Courtyard.” From the start, Jia Zhangshi and Banggeng bully him, but he unexpectedly awakens the Ultimate Counterattack System! Whenever he’s provoked, sabotaged, or set up, he instantly gets a reward: Any Honor of Kings skill he wants! Activate Kai’s Immortal Body, and anyone who touches me gets sent flying! Once Dian Wei goes berserk, every scumbag in the courtyard 3.6kReads7.3Score102Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: The Whole Courtyard Is Asking for Trouble, So I Wipe Them All Out 四合院：全院作死，我直接杀光 After his Nascent Soul perishes, he returns to the courtyard in 1953 as a security chief, carrying on the legacy of a Celestial Master. But he discovers that his elder sister is dead and his nephew is on the brink of death. Those who seized the He family home and bullied the orphan will face karmic justice through a series of “accidents.” 594Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: I Take Yi Zhonghai to Task and Demand 6,000 Yuan 四合院：手撕易中海，逼赔六千块 Chen Wangshan is a transmigrator. He has transmigrated into a notorious courtyard house from across the myriad heavens, full of beasts. No endless bickering back and forth. He'll teach those beasts how to behave by using the law. A new author with a new work. Please go easy on me, dear readers! A fist salute! Thank you! (The rating just came out and will rise later, so please read with confidence.) 83.7kReads5.5Score3.8kShelves
- 30 In the Siheyuan, Silly Zhu Stops Being a Doormat 四合院傻柱不在做冤大头 Snow blanketed the world. As he lay dying beneath a bridge, He Yuzhu watched his archrival, Xu Damao, summon the last of his strength to carry him back to the courtyard, and regret tore at his heart. Reborn as a young man, he awakens a mysterious pocket dimension and gains the skills of a culinary god. He immediately cuts ties with the Jia family. He will repay the deaf old lady's kindness, ease his younger sister's suffering, and rekindle his bond with Lou Xiao'e. As for those bloodsucking para 918Reads8.6Score101Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: My Revenge Begins at the Mass Grave 四合院：从乱葬岗开始复仇 Reborn on a mass grave, Zhang Aiguo returns with a System. The scoundrels stole my family’s property, sold my younger sister, and left me for dead. This time, they’ll pay for every drop of blood! The hypocritical patriarch, the venomous old woman, every last one of them: none will get away! Watch as this young man delivers the ultimate judgment and gets his revenge in this man-eating courtyard! 373Reads8.8Score145Shelves
