Novels like The Siheyuan Foodie's Culinary Redemption
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- 1 Siheyuan: Whoever Wants to Be the Good Guy Can Do It! 四合院：这好人谁爱当谁当！ Li Hao opens his eyes to find he has transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, just as Jia Dongxu breathes his last. At a neighborhood meeting, everyone pressures him to take over Jia Dongxu’s responsibilities! Yi Zhonghai tries to guilt-trip him: “Li Hao, Huairu’s family is struggling. You earn a good salary, so you have to help them!” The other shameless neighbors chime in, practically eager to suck him dry. Li Hao gives a cold laugh and switches into high-level clapback mode. 105Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: Everyday Life for Ordinary Folks 四合院：平民烟火 When an orphan girl enters the world of Love in the Courtyard, she has none of those bizarre golden fingers, storage spaces, or supernatural abilities. All she can rely on is modern knowledge. In the shadow of the times, with undercurrents swirling, she holds fast to her original resolve. As society undergoes sweeping changes, watch the protagonist use her limited foreknowledge and wisdom to try to keep those around her safe. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: Front-Row Gossip as Widow Bai Starts Over With Her Child 四合院：前排吃瓜，白寡妇带崽起 [Siheyuan + Scheming Protagonist + Front-Row Gossip System + Raising Kids + Daily Life + No Goody-Two-Shoes + Funny Power Fantasy] One morning, Bai Yulan, a career-minded powerhouse, wakes up in a period drama as Baoding's widow, the lover of He Daqing, the show's biggest hapless loser. According to the original story, He Daqing abandons his son and daughter and heads to Baoding to fawn over her, leaving her with a notorious reputation for all time. Bai Yulan gives him a sharp slap instead! She 319Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: A Real Man Reborn as a Pretty Widow 四合院：纯爷们穿成俏寡妇 [Period setting + exhilarating story + System + ruthless protagonist] When he wakes up, Lin Jiang, a 40-year-old veteran fishing fanatic, has somehow transmigrated into the stunning widow Qin Huairu in 1965, from the novel The Beastly Siheyuan! From the start, the whole courtyard is holding a public denunciation. His vicious mother-in-law is breathing down his neck, his ungrateful son stabs him in the back, and the neighbors are all glaring at him, ready to devour him alive and drain the last dr 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 A Courtyard Full of Beasts: I Possessed Qin Huairu, So I Might as Well Be a Tough Woman 禽满四合院：附身秦淮茹就当悍妇 Qin Huairu dies in childbirth while giving birth to Huaihua. A young hoodlum named Qin Huairu, who shares her name, transmigrates into her body. After waking up, she finds herself recovering from childbirth with a baby girl, and Jia Zhangshi makes life miserable for her in every possible way. Unable to take it any longer, Qin Huairu beats Jia Zhangshi up, thereby activating the Shrew System. From then on, she begins a life of beating and berating her mother-in-law. She treats her mother-in-law l 312Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Transmigrating to 1956: Those Days, Those Deeds! 穿越56，那年那事！ Li Mengran transmigrates to No. 88 Nanluoguxiang in 1956, right next door to the famous “Beasts-Filled Courtyard.” The original owner did nothing but go to school, perch on the courtyard wall, or squat on the roof to watch the commotion. Tsk, everyone in such a complicated courtyard is a force to be reckoned with. She wouldn’t dare get involved with them, so she just watches the drama unfold. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 I’m Widow Bai! I Choose Yi Zhonghai!! 我白寡妇！选着易中海！！ She woke up to discover that she had become Bai Huilan, the White Widow who had run off with He Daqing in the courtyard. It was now 1950, and her husband had been dead for only three days. All she had was a small courtyard house in Baoding, two sons, the older ten and the younger eight, three small gold bars, and a million in savings. It looked like a lot of money, but there was no income coming in, and with two boys still in school, it wouldn’t last long. So Bai Huilan decided to marry Yi Zhong 2.9kReads7.0Score209Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: I Become Qin Huairu’s Cousin 四合院之我成了秦淮茹她堂妹 After spending half her life studying food, Qin Yueyue transmigrated into the world of the TV drama Love in the Courtyard, becoming the cousin of the scheming Qin Huairu. She had planned to live a quiet, orderly life, but then discovered she had awakened a “Courtyard Sign-In System.” It could only be activated if she registered as a resident at No. 95, Nanluoguxiang, where the story took place, so she simply chose to marry Silly Zhu. If Qin Huairu could train Silly Zhu like a dog, she could do e 99Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 9 The Fiery Wife of the Fifties: Making My Fortune by Clapping Back in the Courtyard 五零辣媳：我在四合院靠怼人发家 In her previous life, Shen Xibai was a socially anxious woman who took her own life after being cyberbullied. When she opened her eyes, she had become “Matchmaker Shen,” a newly widowed woman in a Beijing courtyard in 1958! Her husband had died in battle, her parents-in-law were both gone, and all she had left was three dilapidated rooms, three gaunt children, and a timid younger sister-in-law. Jia Zhangshi eyed her covetously, while Yi Zhonghai used “moral coercion” to unfairly distribute grain 58Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Turn Down Yushui’s Confession 四合院：开局拒绝雨水表白 A modern-day loser transmigrates to the era setting and becomes He Yushui’s prospective partner in the courtyard. Unwilling to get tangled up with the courtyard’s beasts, the protagonist decisively gives up on her. It’s not that he’s a jerk. He genuinely can’t stand the courtyard’s beasts. Who could have known that fate would arrange for him to end up at the steel mill anyway, where he still can’t avoid dealing with those beasts? So be it. The protagonist won’t be blamed for being ruthless. Anyo 447Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: In the Years of Hunger and Cold, Make He Yushui Clutch the Wall 四合院：饥寒年代，让何雨水扶墙 [Taming the Courtyard’s Beasts + Resource System + Wish-Fulfillment Story + Liu Bei + Winning Qin Jingru, Who Later Marries Xu Damao + Liu Lan Might Be in on It Too...] Zhao Hongqi transmigrates into the body of a purchasing agent at a steel mill and becomes the boyfriend of He Yushui, a campus beauty still in college. He acquires a Resource System that gives him one free ton of supplies every month, and lets him buy ten tons with cash. When he transmigrates, he’s making love to He Yushui when t 250Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: I'll Protect My Silly Zhu 四合院：我的傻柱我守护 Lin Wanqing transmigrates to a famine year and, to stay alive, marries Silly Zhu, He Yuzhu, after just three days of courtship in a Beijing courtyard home. Everyone in the compound laughs at her for marrying a simpleton, waiting for her to be left with nothing so they can steal her food tins and take her house. She lowers her head and plays the obedient wife, while quietly weaving her web. Years later, her restaurant is thriving, her home is bright and spacious, and her children have made som 399Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: The Stingy System Arrived Twenty Years Late 四合院：迟到二十年的抠门系统 [Low aggression] + [System] + [No whitewashing] Su Han was transmigrated into this world before she was even born, and for twenty years she had no idea she was in a parallel version of Beast-Filled Courtyard. She only found out on the day she started her new job. Even the System that usually comes with transmigration arrived twenty years late. Could anyone be more unlucky? On her very first day living in the courtyard, she runs into the necromancer Jia Zhangshi, who is trying to seize her home 455Reads6.2Score103Shelves
- 14 He Yushui Is Reborn: From the Start, She Sends Yi Zhonghai to the Northwest 何雨水重生，开局送易中海去西北 At the start of the new century, He Yushui lay alone in a hospital bed, an oxygen mask covering her face. There was no one by her side to care for her. In the final moments of her life, He Yushui looked back on her tragic existence: her father had left home, her brother Silly Zhu had become obsessed with Qin Huairu, and she had married a mama's boy who was a police officer. Her life was filled with regret and pain. If she could live her life over, she would surely change her fate. At last, He Yu 2.4kReads6.9Score103Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: What? The Head of the Courtyard Is My Uncle? 四合院：什么？一大爷是我舅舅？ [Siheyuan courtyard + heroine + transmigration into another body + Divine Doctor System + combined Chinese and Western medicine] Surgeon Chen Yu was framed and killed, then unexpectedly transmigrated into a Siheyuan courtyard. From the start, she was frail and sickly! [Ding! The Divine Doctor Development System has been activated!] She was thrilled. With [Diagnostic Eye] activated, no hidden illness in the human body could escape detection, and she could see right through everything! Saving Ban 304Reads8.1Score124Shelves
- 16 The Siheyuan Is Full of Trouble: I, He Yushui, Tear Up the Script 禽满四合院：我，何雨水手撕剧本 In her previous life, she was a nobody in the Siheyuan, ignored and used until she withered away without a sound. Reborn, He Yushui opens her eyes and finds herself back in the era that decided her fate. This time, she won’t be a coward! She’ll beat the bloodsucking beasts to a pulp, kick the hypocritical neighbors to the curb, and tear off every false mask. He Yushui: “This time, I’ll take control of my own destiny! If someone wrongs me, I’ll get even on the spot. No putting it off! I’ll do wha 1.4kReads6.4Score—Shelves
- 17 He Yushui Transmigrates, Starting in the Siheyuan 何雨水穿越从四合院开始 A modern orphan, He Yushui, is reborn in the Siheyuan as He Yushui once more. See how the protagonist, armed with a golden finger, survives in this man-eating courtyard while keeping her brother, Silly Zhu, alive. 2.1kReads7.1Score104Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: Reborn as He Yushui, I Take Down He Yuzhu 四合院：魂穿何雨水，手撕何雨柱 [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Pocket Dimension + Two Superpowers + Political Scheming] Yu Shui, a well-known project manager, suddenly transmigrates into 1966 and becomes He Yushui from Love in the Courtyard, the girl who was starved to death by her own older brother, Silly Zhu! From the start, she’s dealt a terrible hand: both parents are dead, her health is so frail she could die at any moment, and her older brother is a hopeless romantic, utterly manipulated by the two-faced Qin Huair 802Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: I Transmigrated into a Mother 四合院：我穿越成了孩子他妈 The pampered daughter of a jewelry business owner transmigrates into the world of the novel The Birds Are Full in the Courtyard after a car accident, becoming the captivating Qin Huairu, a mother of three. Since she can't change the fact that she transmigrated, she'll use the System to change the times! Taking on the role of a mother, she teaches Banggeng, who is used to stealing, and uses the System to climb the ranks at the Red Star Steel Plant. Along the way, her relationship with Silly Zhu g 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Is No White Lotus 四合院：秦淮茹不白莲 An obstetrician working in a modern-day hospital dies of overwork and collapses in the operating room. When she opens her eyes again, she discovers she has become a pure-hearted white lotus in a TV drama, destined to be a widow raising three little wolves. How is she supposed to get by? Luckily, the transmigration god gives her a golden finger, helping her survive the turbulent 1950s. Let’s see how a woman from the new century fights for her life in an era of transition between the old and the n 2.1kReads8.2Score132Shelves
- 21 A Doomsday Girl's Lie-Flat Life in the Siheyuan 末日女穿四合院躺平日常 (Gacha System + tormenting Jia Zhangshi + a little tormenting of Qin Huairu + easy, mindless thrills) Qin Xiang, an ability user who survived the Doomsday, loses her life while gathering supplies. When she wakes up, she discovers that she has transmigrated into the Siheyuan world as Qin Xiangru, a country girl from Qin Village who never existed in the original story and is the cousin of the famous widow Qin Huairu. After transmigrating, Qin Xiang is unexpectedly blessed with a Gacha System. It c 209Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Siheyuan: He Yushui Takes on Qin Huairu from the Start 四合院：何雨水开局暴怼秦淮茹 Synopsis After her parents divorced, Huang Shuyun went to live with her mother. By chance, she transmigrated into He Yushui. The clever, well-behaved Huang Shuyun became the righteous, wrong-hating He Yushui. Qin Huairu wants a lunchbox? He Yushui snatches it away. Bang Geng steals a chicken? He tries to steal one and ends up losing his own. The First Master and Jia Zhangshi have something going on? Well, they certainly deserve each other. Qin Huairu wants to use Lou Xiaoe's money to make hersel 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 He Yushui and Sha Zhu Flee to Hong Kong for More Children, More Blessings 四合院何雨水携傻柱奔港多子多福 [Soul Transmigration + Beating Down the Villains + System + Making a Fortune] He Qian somehow found herself as He Yushui, the younger sister of He Yuzhu, the hapless “Silly Zhu” who was treated like an ATM by everyone in the courtyard, in the TV drama Love in the Courtyard, the show she hated most! She looked in the mirror and saw how scrawny she was, and nearly lost it. In her previous life, she’d been a stunning beauty. The First Uncle skims the living expenses meant for her and Silly Zhu? The 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Quick Transmigration: Living to Ninety-Nine 快穿活到九十九 Wang Li was an ordinary worker who lost her life while watching the commotion. After her death, she was bound to a System and began a quick transmigration journey. She had no particular goal beyond living to a ripe old age. The first world is set in a courtyard house. I didn't write it very smoothly, so you might want to start with the second story, Palace Schemes. I hope you'll point out any mistakes. I'll accept criticism with an open mind. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: I Transmigrate into Silly Zhu and Choose My Own Life 四合院：穿越傻柱，选择人生 Zhang Peng, a hotheaded online commenter who used to curse the scoundrels of the courtyard, transmigrates into Silly Zhu and activates the Choose Your Life System from the start. If you become Silly Zhu, what would you choose... [Option A: Keep helping Qin Huairu, gain the secret recipe for "Four Directions Softshell Turtle Soup," and receive the title "Good Samaritan"] [Option B: Give Banggeng a thorough beating, receive ten yuan in cash…] [Option C: …] The blurb can't do it justice, s 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: The Happy Life of Lin Qi, the Lunatic 四合院：神经病林柒的快乐人生 1961, Courtyard No. 85, Nanluoguxiang, in the city of Beijing. In front of the door to the right-hand side room in the middle courtyard, that is, in front of He Yushui’s little room, right next door to the home of the notorious moral paragon Yi Zhonghai, Lin Qi crouched quietly, staring blankly at the laundry lady by the pool, Qin Huairu. Don’t get the wrong idea. He wasn’t interested in her. If anything, he found it a little funny. You had to admit, she really lived up to her title as the laund 139Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 27 Transmigrating to a Siheyuan in 1953: Ruthless and Decisive 穿越1953四合院，杀伐果断 [System] [Transmigrate into a Siheyuan] [Decisive and ruthless] [Single female lead] With the “Replication System” at his side, Li Guo transmigrates as an injured procurement officer in 1953. He copies top-tier medical skills to save himself in the hospital, then replicates criminal investigation skills in front of the police to solve a case. As soon as he leaves the hospital, Qin Huairu shows up pregnant and pressures him to marry her. He watches coldly as she marries Jia Dongxu, but after catc 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Crossing into a Multiverse: The Onlookers Are Here 综影穿：吃瓜群众已就位 Chi Xia and Fang Zhixu; Xiao Ran and Lei Ze After spending time in three thousand worlds, the four great gods were enjoying a peaceful life in the City of the Gods, only to get betrayed by the kitten they raised... Well, let’s just call it a honeymoon. Sunflower seeds, peanuts, grilled fish snacks, beer, soft drinks, and bottled water! Being bystanders in TV dramas is pretty nice too, but why do the main characters have to come over and stir up trouble? Love in the Courtyard, Twenty Your Life On 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 I Reincarnated as Qin Huairu, and Lou Xiaoe and I Are Sisters 穿成秦淮茹，我和娄晓娥是姐妹 Silly Zhu's fate is completely changed: he has a happy family and a successful career! Jia Zhangshi keeps throwing tantrums and rolling around, but she's no longer a villain! Xu Damao and Lou Xiaoe each focus on their careers. They're not married, but they become friends. As for Qin Huairu, it's hard to say. Read it and see for yourself! 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 30 Transmigrated as Lou Xiao'e, Fighting Poison with Poison in Siheyuan 穿成娄晓娥，我在四合院以毒攻毒 Ye Xiao'e dies in a car accident in the modern world, only to discover she has transmigrated into Lou Xiao'e, the wife of Xu Damao in the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. She comes with a System that lets her sabotage the original plot. 149Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: Yi Zhonghai Gets the Firing Squad, Jia Zhangshi Gets Struck by Lightning 四合院：枪毙易中海雷霹贾张氏 He Yumei had only just left the military when, on her way home, she became the nonexistent He Yumei from the courtyard, older sister of He Yuzhu. Who says you have to spend your whole life fighting those animals in the compound? Yi Zhonghai has such a massive weakness, and he embezzled so much money. Send him to the firing squad. What do you mean, “I was keeping it safe for you”? He Yuzhu didn’t even know He Yushui had nearly starved to death, and Yi Zhonghai still wouldn’t hand over the money. 203Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 32 Siheyuan: A Life of Leisure in Old Age 四合院之养老生活 (No hostility, no bashing the original, just watching the drama unfold.) Peng Yuyang works overtime for three days straight and dies at her desk. When she wakes up, she finds herself in a famous courtyard compound. Thinking of the savings she hadn’t spent and the newly renovated home she hadn’t even had a chance to move into, she is overwhelmed with grief. The hardest thing to accept is that she has become the most deeply hidden villain in the compound: Old Lady Deaf. She’d always dreamed of ret 495Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 33 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Beat Up My Own Brother, Silly Zhu 四合院之开局暴揍亲哥傻柱 She had just graduated from college, only to find that ten million people were looking for jobs. She muttered, “The ’60s and ’70s were better. Jobs were assigned to you back then.” When she woke up, she had somehow landed in a period drama, as the younger sister of the male lead in a courtyard-house series. Well, that was great. Her brother was just a bit of an idiot who never listened. What could she do? As his real younger sister, she’d have to let him experience the deep, devoted love of a li 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Siheyuan: Stealing Silly Zhu's Match and Emptying the Lou Family Home 四合院：截胡傻柱，搬空娄家 A modern office worker is reborn as Lou Xiaoe from Love in the Courtyard. She promptly dumps Xu Damao. With a space at her disposal, she empties her family's fortune, worth hundreds of millions, overnight, before it can be confiscated. The whole courtyard holds a meeting to denounce her capitalist ways? Lou Xiaoe just smiles and pulls out her class-background certificate. Xu Damao blocks her path, red-eyed. “E, you were supposed to marry me!” He Yuzhu silently steps in front of her. “Looking for 1.6kReads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Siheyuan Bestie Squad: Flirting with Men, Crushing Scumbags, and Going Wild! 四合院闺蜜团：撩汉，虐渣，癫！ Scumbag, don't move. Let me slap you to death! To pursue a scumbag, Ran Qiuye transmigrates into a courtyard house. This girl is both sweet and sharp, with off-the-charts intelligence! Huairu, Xiaoe, and Qiuye form a trio of gorgeous best friends. They flirt with handsome men, torment scumbags, tame beasts, and enjoy happy hour. Can Shazhu's miserable life, Xiaoe's ill-fated romance, and Huairu's leech-like persona be rewritten? Qiuye and the scumbag are both transmigrators. They suspect each ot 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu’s Journey to Self-Reliance 四合院之秦淮茹的自强人生 Qin Huairu, who struggled to survive in a courtyard with three children and her mother-in-law, has made a glorious comeback! Who says I’m a white lotus? Who says all I do is drain Silly Zhu dry? The System has given me a protagonist aura! I’ll take on my mother-in-law, my sister-in-law, Xu Damao, the groper, Lou Xiao'e... Self-reliant and determined! Watch Qin Huairu become a strong, independent woman! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 In the Siheyuan, You Have to Rely on Yourself for Everything 四合院儿，一切都要靠自己 A Chinese woman assassin from 2024 is reborn in a courtyard house, bringing her personal spatial dimension with her. Her soul merges with that of He Yushui, a seven-year-old girl. When she wakes, she discovers that her father has run off, her foolish older brother is too busy learning a trade to look after her, and he has awakened the skills of a doormat. She has become a pitiful little girl no one cares about. On New Year's Eve, she nearly loses her soul entirely. After the soul merge, He Yushu 5.5kReads8.7Score297Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: I, He Yushui, Return to the 1960s to Lie Flat 四合院：我何雨水回60年代躺平 [Crossover drama worlds] [Has a pocket dimension, but it barely matters] [Golden finger, but it barely matters] [Siheyuan setting] [Reborn] [Low on hostility] [Making money] [Patriotic] After opening her eyes once more, Wang Qing, who had died while saving someone, found herself reborn with a System in the body of the young He Yushui. The fourth year after her rebirth was 1962, just in time for Jia Dongxu to die in a workplace accident. The First Grandpa became a self-righteous crusader, fier 256Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 39 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu, Did Your Sister Beat You Up Again? 四合院：傻柱，又让你姐揍了？ [Rebuilding the Family’s Values] Transmigrated into Love in the Courtyard as Silly Zhu’s “early-deceased” elder sister! After leaving the army, He Yubing completely transforms her younger siblings. What does she do about her younger brother He Yuzhu, who’s been bled dry by the whole courtyard and reduced to a lovesick doormat? One word: beat him! What about He Yushui, who’s been mistreated since childhood? He Yubing will protect her sister without hesitation! He Yubing becomes the backbone of th 601Reads6.4Score100Shelves
- 40 The Heart of a Machine Shines on the Siheyuan in the 1960s 六零机械之心照四合 The Mechanical Heart Shines on the Siheyuan: He Yushui's Industrial Era A female college student majoring in mechanical engineering transmigrates into the Siheyuan as Silly Zhu's younger sister, He Yushui. Through her own hard work, she changes her brother's fate and the two of them build a good life together. 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Building a Science and Technology Powerhouse: Researching in a Siheyuan 科技强国：我在四合院搞研发 "Transmigration, System, and a Strong Nation" Regular updates at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. every day, with over 6,000 words daily. No missed updates and no abandoned ending. I’m a new author, so please feel free to share your valuable comments and suggestions! Yi Suining, a graduate student in modern materials science, wakes up to find herself in the early 1960s, in the world of Love in the Courtyard, as the orphaned daughter of a fallen hero. Fortunately, her parents’ commanding officer, Commander Chu 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Siheyuan: I Am He Yushui 四合院之我是何雨水 He Yushui woke up one morning. Why had the scenery changed? At least she was on her own. Anywhere could be home. What's more, she now had two family members. She would never have to envy others again. She wouldn't be alone anymore. … … 1.7kReads7.1Score104Shelves
- 43 Siheyuan: I Lead My Whole Family to Good Food and Drink 四合院：我带着全家吃香喝辣 Lin Xiaoyang transmigrates into the TV drama Poultry-Filled Courtyard while taking a break from watching to complain about it! Looking at the frail body that was knocked to death by Bang Geng, Lin Xiaoyang thinks fate is out to get her. But who could have guessed her farm would come along too, to this era of scarce supplies… From then on, she and her family feast on the finest food and drink. Before long, she’s led the entire courtyard astray~ 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Whether the Siheyuan Is in Chaos Is Up to He Yushui 四合院乱不乱，何雨水说了算 [Spatial storage + powerful protagonist + shopping spree for free] Who rules the courtyard? He Yushui calls the shots. After completing who knows how many System missions, a mission-taker outsmarts the System and ends up in the 1959 TV drama Love in the Courtyard, reincarnated as He Yushui, who goes hungry for three days out of every ten. She turns completely ruthless. At first, she can’t be bothered with that pack of animals, but then they start plotting against Silly Zhu and disrupting her lif 824Reads6.7Score107Shelves
- 45 Siheyuan: Mom Knows My Heart 四合院之妈妈知我心 A different kind of feel-good story, with no golden finger. Beating people up isn’t satisfying, it’s reckless; shedding blood isn’t satisfying, it’s just gruesome. Real satisfaction comes from making people swallow bitter consequences, leaving them no room to argue, and making their hearts bleed... A fight feels good for a moment, but one sharp tongue can bring joy every day. That’s the difference... No fighting: mature people only use their words. No brawling: clever people only use their mouth 59Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 46 Siheyuan: Auntie Yi, the Ultimate Tool Character 四合院之工具人一大妈 (No dark or violent themes, with a focus on everyday life.) Han Shuyun, an older unmarried woman, couldn't escape her parents' arrangements and reluctantly prepared to go on a blind date. On her way there, she was hit and killed by a car that had gone out of control. When she regained consciousness, she discovered she had become the First Auntie in a Beijing courtyard house. Just like that, she went from single to married in one step. As it turned out, she had gotten a blessing in disguise and b 582Reads6.0Score112Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: Gossiping and Signing In at the Neighborhood Office Women’s Federation 四合院：我在街道办妇联吃瓜签到 Zhou Xiaoran, a vocational school student, is assigned to an internship at the Nanluoguxiang Subdistrict Office. With the staff dormitory short on space, she temporarily moves into an empty room in the back courtyard of a place full of stories. On the surface, the heroine is quiet, well-behaved, adaptable, and polite. Inside, she is clever and levelheaded, with keen powers of observation and a strong sense of justice, though she isn’t a pushover. She is good at playing the pig to eat the tiger. 1.8kReads—Score—Shelves
- 48 From the Big White Goose to Chen Xueru to Zhou Xiaobai in the Siheyuan 四合院，大白鹅到陈雪茹到周小白 When transmigrator Li Jianguo gave up on saving the world and decided to enjoy a leisurely life in the courtyard, the entire ecosystem of Love in the Courtyard began to collapse. Li Jianguo, the steel mill doctor, opened his eyes again on his sickbed and found himself at a courtyard meeting, where everyone was trying to morally blackmail him. Instead of following the usual path of quietly enduring hardship before turning the tables, he unleashed a "rumor bomb" and sparked a darkly comic frenzy a 1.4kReads5.6Score111Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Was Set Up, So I Turned the Tables and Married a Sweetheart 四合院：开局被算计，反手娶娇妻 Qin Fan woke up one morning to discover that he had transmigrated into the courtyard sitcom, as an insignificant nobody. His parents had both died, leaving behind a pair of fraternal twin siblings. To his surprise, Yi Zhonghai set his sights on Qin Fan’s younger brother and wanted to adopt him. Jia Zhangshi, meanwhile, had her eye on the Qin family’s house. She insisted on adopting Qin Fan’s younger sister, all so she could seize half the family home. Luckily, Qin Ming had transmigrated here. Le 92Reads—Score141Shelves
- 50 Siheyuan: We’re All Reborn, So Who’d Still Choose to Die Alone? 四合院：都重生了，谁还当绝户 A lifetime of cowardice, ending in a snowy night death! Xu Damao drags Silly Zhu's corpse, only to be beaten to death by Banggeng. His boundless resentment and endless regret bring him back to 1958 with the [Human Emotions Quantification System]! [Ding! Strong anger from Jia Zhangshi. Negative emotion points +10!] From the start, he snaps back at a shrew, and the System's numbers soar. Xu Damao is thrilled! The tragedies of his past life will be repaid a hundredfold in this one! [Positive emotio 124Reads—Score—Shelves
