Novels like Siheyuan: Silly Zhu and His Many Descendants
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- 51 I’d Just Transmigrated When I Accidentally Took Qin Huairu’s First Time 刚魂穿就错取了秦淮茹第一次 Tong Yajun, a successful businessman who has weathered the ups and downs of the marketplace, opens his eyes and finds himself in the body of “Silly Zhu,” a man living in a Beijing courtyard in the 1950s. Before he can figure out what's going on, Qin Huairu arrives at the courtyard for a matchmaking date, and an accident leads to the two becoming intimate. Looking at the tearful woman in his arms, Tong Yajun immediately understands: he's ended up in the world of a TV drama full of scoundrels, wh 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Zhao Shanhe's Happy Life in the Siheyuan 赵山河在四合院的快乐生活 A courtyard-house story beginning in the late 1950s. No saintly do-gooding + No letters of forgiveness + No groveling + No reckless stabbing How will Zhao Shanhe make a life for himself in the courtyard? I hear even the Zhuxian Sword Formation can't do a thing about it. 619Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 53 Siheyuan: Serving the People 四合院：为人民服务 Reborn in a courtyard house, he only wants to take good care of his widowed mother and manage his own little life. Along the way, he’ll also improve the supply of goods for the people, so they can live a little more comfortably. Making money is secondary. The main thing is serving the people! 62Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 54 Siheyuan: The Cousin Is Here 四合院之老表来了 After the Korean War ended in victory in 1953, Lü Xiangyang followed his father’s arrangements and transferred back to the capital. But at the end of the year, when his father, senior officer Lü Yunzhou, came home, he casually let slip that Lü Xiangyang had an aunt named Lü Bingxin, and that his uncle by marriage was none other than He Daqing. 2kReads7.2Score10114d adds
- 55 Starting at Eight, I Flee the Famine with My Little Sister in the Siheyuan 四合院从八岁带着妹妹逃荒开始 Li Daniu becomes an eight-year-old boy. His entire family is gone, save for his four-year-old sister. The rest of them starved to death while fleeing famine. Before Liberation, Li Daniu and his sister flee all the way to the capital, to Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. There he realizes he’s in the world of the siheyuan. He settles in with the neighbors, raises his sister, and gets caught up in a series of events with the people around him. 505Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 56 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
- 57 Siheyuan: I’ve Got a Doubao AI in My Head 四合院：脑子多了个豆包AI (First, let me make one thing clear: this is fan fiction based on a TV drama, not the kind of fan fiction where everyone loses brain cells. Everyone here is smart. The conflicts in the courtyard early on lay the groundwork for rebuilding certain characters later, so please be patient. Also, I just don't think fighting to the death over courtyard squabbles is satisfying. The really satisfying stuff comes from big events.) Qian Xin had been lying in bed using Doubao AI to learn about mechanical en 15Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 58 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 16.6kReads7.6Score80714d adds
- 59 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Reunite with My Father, Yi Zhonghai! 四合院：开局认亲，亲爹易中海！ Yi Chengzhi transmigrated. He found himself in the countryside in mid-1958, facing a disastrous start. With the three years of hardship looming, Yi Chengzhi panicked. Fortunately, this was the world of the Courtyard. And according to his memories, he had a father, Yi Zhonghai, whom he had been separated from years ago during the turmoil of war. Yi Chengzhi set out on a thousand-mile journey to find his family in the capital, Beijing. That year, Jia Dongxu was still alive, and the Jia family had 174Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 60 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
- 61 A Nobody in the Siheyuan 四合院一边缘人 A fine young man from the 21st century transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan. With a System, Li Miao only wants to live a good life with his mother. But in this courtyard full of people who resent others’ good fortune, laugh at their misfortune, despise you for being poor and fear you’ll become rich, staying out of trouble is impossible. So Li Miao has no choice but to outwit the courtyard’s bullies! A story about giving them a run for their money and turning the place upside down! 34Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 62 Siheyuan: Living Off Yi Zhonghai and Enjoying a Life of Freedom 四合院：啃老易中海，享飞扬人生 [A crossover of multiple TV dramas + if you mind multiple heroines, stay away] The Courtyard, Man Is Made of Iron, Little Woman, Sisters, Qiao's Family, A Lifelong Journey Wei Wu is a truck driver, and his neighbor is the venerable Yi Zhonghai. To avoid being bled dry, Wei Wu promptly makes Yi Zhonghai his adoptive father. From then on, Wei Wu goes further and further down the road of freeloading... There are Qin Huairu, the “washing machine”; Lou Xiao'e, the sweet and naive girl; Yu Li, a mas 3.7kReads6.9Score19314d adds
- 63 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Took the Beastly Neighbors' Houses 四合院：开局直接拿下禽兽们房子 [The protagonist isn't a good person + takes the initiative + mainly enjoys tormenting scoundrels + won't write them off as irredeemable] Li Luo transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Bound to a System, he begins a wonderful life of making sport of scoundrels. 6.1kReads7.4Score17514d adds
- 64 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
- 65 Modern City: A Rich Heir's Telekinetic Cultivation 现代都市，念力修真的富二代 His parents die in a car accident, leaving him 80 million in demolition compensation. Sun Qian schemes against him, and he suffers every hardship life can throw at him. Reborn, he changes the outcome of his previous life. He learns to cultivate immortality, witnesses the suffering of humanity, and makes progress in both his career and cultivation. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Siheyuan: Returning from the Battlefield in Glory in 1950 四合院：50年从战场载誉归来 Li Ping'an transmigrates to the world of Love in the Courtyard. After accidentally saving a soldier, he's forced to flee the capital for a while. Over the next year, he becomes a soldier himself, serving his country in bloody battles and earning a string of distinguished military achievements. While he's fighting the enemy on the front lines, his family is suffering abuse in the courtyard. Even their only home is seized by Deaf Granny, leaving them on the brink of starvation. A year later, Li Pi 5.1kReads6.4Score10314d adds
- 67 I Became Silly Zhu's Uncle 我成了傻柱他叔了 Before I began writing this story, I hesitated for a long time. My previous story, Dreams Pursued in the Courtyard, still left me with many regrets. It was my first time writing, and I wanted to include too much, which made the story feel scattered later on. My portrayal of the courtyard’s characters also left room for debate. Ever since this period drama aired, opinions have been divided. More than anything, people today find it hard to imagine what life was like back then. Set in the heart of 6.4kReads7.1Score21714d adds
- 68 Siheyuan: A Carefree Tough Guy and the System Help Me Marry a Beauty 四合院：摆烂糙汉系统养我娶娇娥 In the spring of 1965, Silly Zhu is reborn on the morning Qin Huairu tricked him out of his grain coupons. He activates the "Infinite Resources Lie-Flat System": as long as he lies flat and refuses to be the Jia family's "meal ticket," he can exchange points for scarce goods such as grain coupons, meat coupons, and industrial vouchers. He overturns the parasitic family's dinner table on the spot and tears up Qin Huairu's begging bowl. From then on, he begins his comeback with the motto "lying fl 112Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 The Siheyuan Cook on the Train 四合院的厨子在火车上 [Siheyuan] [Transmigration] [A Pocket Dimension] [Not Brain-Dead] Li Jiahong transmigrates into the world of Siheyuan. The story begins four years before the main plot, when Jia Dongxu has just been hung up on the wall, Qin Huairu is heavily pregnant, Silly Zhu has only just started getting ideas, and Xu Damao has just gotten married. Well... I'm no good at writing blurbs. Please head straight to the story... 2.9kReads6.5Score10614d adds
- 70 Modern City: Radiation Helped Me Refine My Spirit 现代都市，我靠辐射炼出了精神 An ordinary office drone in the computer industry stumbles upon an extraordinary opportunity and tries using his supernatural powers to make a fortune in the U.S. stock market and achieve financial freedom. He hires a girlfriend, finds sweet love, and trains to strengthen his powers, becoming the only supernatural ability user in the world. He plays the fool to catch the tiger... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Love in the Courtyard: The Rogue Damao's Projection System 情满四合院：浪子大茂的放映系统 A modern-day corporate drone stays up late ranting about Xu Damao's ending in Love in the Courtyard, only to be struck by lightning and transmigrate into the body of a womanizing projectionist with the same name. He awakens the Future Movie Projection System: screening films from the future earns Popularity Points, while flirting with beautiful women (without going too far!) earns fragments of fertility remedies. That's right, he's going to cure infertility, win over Lou Xiao'e, and rewrite the 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Siheyuan: Keep Your Distance, All of You 四合院：全都莫挨老子 [No System] [An Ordinary Person] [Not Too Much Bloodshed] [Somewhat Logical?] This is a courtyard-house fanfic told mainly from He Yuzhu's perspective. It strives to keep the characters' behavior close to that of the original show. With no cheat abilities and only his original brains, he can only change things gradually, not all at once. After returning from the dead, Silly Zhu saw the true faces of the whole pack of scoundrels and resolved to escape his miserable life. He put his not particular 1.8kReads6.4Score10214d adds
- 73 Siheyuan: I'm the Hand Behind It All 四合院：我是一切的推手 [This book is mainly about taking down scumbags. The protagonist will strike back on his own, so move along if that’s not your thing] A chance accident sent Li Luo transmigrating to the 1960s. But things weren’t so simple. From the original owner’s memories, he learned that in the compound where he lived, the First Master was Yi Zhonghai, the Second Master was Liu Haizhong, and the Third Master was Yan Bugui... 4.8kReads7.7Score12914d adds
- 74 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Marries into His Wife's Family 四合院：傻柱入赘 An old farmer transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Knowing he has no chance of standing up to the beasts filling the courtyard, he figures that if he can't take them on, he can stay out of their way. So he moves in with his sister at his wife's home. From then on, he watches the turmoil unfold from the safety of his boat, seeing the courtyard beasts fight among themselves and meet their downfall. He waits for the day the reform and opening up begins, when he can soar to success 8.5kReads6.9Score35014d adds
- 75 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. 15.1kReads6.7Score44614d adds
- 76 Siheyuan: Transferred Out of the Military, I Join the Security Division from the Start! 四合院：部队转业，开局保卫科！ (If you dislike Qin Huairu, don’t read this. Writing a book isn’t easy, and you can’t please everyone. This novel has a light, comfortable style, without much hostility or mindless sacrificial moves from the usual troublemakers. Does it make sense for them to keep provoking the protagonist when they know he’s an officer in the security department? The early chapters focus on laying the groundwork and creating a pleasant atmosphere, so please be patient. It only gets better as the story goes on!) 2.6kReads7.9Score10114d adds
- 77 I, Yan Jiekang, Start Out as a Sent-Down Youth in the Countryside 四合院我阎解旷开局下乡当知青 Yan Jiekang, an aimless young man from the 21st century, accidentally transmigrates into the body of a man with the same name. To make matters worse, his father is nicknamed Yan the Cheapskate. Isn’t this the TV drama Love in the Courtyard, the one he used to find so infuriating? And his courtyard really is a case of big trouble in a small place, with all sorts of top-tier troublemakers everywhere! Thankfully, he awakens a spatial ability, giving him hope for an easier life. With no job, Yan Jie 10.3kReads7.4Score34414d adds
- 78 Siheyuan: Changing He Yuzhu's Life 四合院：改变何雨柱人生 In a Beijing Siheyuan where warmth and coldness in human relationships intertwine, Silly Zhu, He Yuzhu, is a righteous cook who is constantly taken advantage of. For the sake of getting along with his neighbors, he gives them everything, yet keeps getting the short end of the stick. His life is trapped in petty squabbles and suffocating debts of gratitude. But this time, after He Dazhu transmigrates into He Yuzhu, he unexpectedly awakens and sees through the selfish schemes of certain people in 2.8kReads7.0Score10414d adds
- 79 Siheyuan: Who's More of a Beast Than Me? 四合院谁能比我更禽兽 The Jia family is arranging a match, and I’m taking the bride. What’s wrong with that? The Jia family has three rooms, and I want one. What’s wrong with that? Granny Jia steals, so I give her free room and board. She should be thanking me. How did Second Uncle’s underwear end up at the Jia family’s place? Chen Fan helped with that, of course. Yi Zhonghai tries to brainwash people, so I beat him with the big stick of morality. He actually calls me a brute, so I have no choice but to break his han 691Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 80 Siheyuan: Six Lives, Six Reincarnations 四合院：六生六世 In his first life, He Yuzhu. In his second, He Xiao. In his third, a member of the Lou family. In his fourth, He Yuzhu's neighbor and brother-in-law. In his fifth, a security department worker. In his sixth, middle-aged Silly Zhu. An endless cycle of reincarnation, an endless series of lives to experience. 7.5kReads8.3Score20114d adds
- 81 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
- 82 Siheyuan: The Warmth of Everyday Life 四合院之烟火人间 The story is still set in that familiar courtyard, yet something about it feels a little different. Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, and Yan Bugui all have the same air about them as before, just as you remember. Xu Damao still gets that obnoxious streak from time to time. He Yuzhu, however, has become a little more level-headed. Perhaps because he has decided to lie flat, he seems to appear less often in the story. The most puzzling of all is Jia Zhangshi, who is currently comforting her daughter-in- 4.7kReads6.3Score10514d adds
- 83 Siheyuan: After Transmigrating as Silly Zhu, I Gave Up Trying! 四合院：穿越成傻柱以后摆烂了！ He Yuzhu, a banquet chef in Dongshan Province, was cooking for a feast when a hailstone the size of an egg suddenly knocked him out. After his apprentice Pangzi shook him awake, he discovered that he had a golden finger: a spiritual spring pocket dimension. Inside was a three-courtyard residence with a food-preserving function. Thinking about how bizarre the weather was, He Yuzhu suspected that the world might be coming to an end. When something strange happens, trouble can't be far behind. He Y 14.9kReads7.2Score52314d adds
- 84 I'm the Living King of Hell in the Siheyuan 我在四合院当活阎王 After transmigrating as a hotheaded soldier, I transfer to the capital, take a job at a steel mill, marry Liu Tianxian, and move into Courtyard No. 95. When trouble comes, I don’t waste time talking. I just get things done. In my domain, my rules are the rules. (｡•ˇ‸ˇ•｡) I crush everyone in my path and charge ahead without hesitation. Anyone who dares bully my wife, just you wait... 397Reads6.7Score10014d adds
- 85 Siheyuan: Liu Guangtian's Carefree Life 四合院：刘光天的逍遥人生 Liu Guangtian transmigrates into the world of the courtyard house, just after the end of public-private partnerships. He is still in eighth grade, and his old man is Fat Liu. No need to say more: first, pass the technical college entrance exam and land a secure job, then take charge of his own life. As for the nasty residents...their fates are bound to be grim. 7.9kReads8.0Score27714d adds
- 86 A Journey Through the Myriad Worlds, Starting in Siheyuan 从四合院开始的诸天旅行 [Myriad Worlds] [Extensive research for accurate details] [Original female lead + taking in Qin + farming] He Yuzhu has a fortuitous encounter and hopes to live a different kind of life, escaping the fate of a drudge. Siheyuan + Nothing But Thirty + Brotherhood of Blades + Sesame Alley + A Lifelong Journey + Blood Romance + more to come This story involves taking in Qin in Siheyuan. If that’s not for you, then let’s part ways here, friends. Please don’t wait until you reach the relevant chapters 25.9kReads8.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 87 Siheyuan: Liu Guangqi 四合院之刘光奇 Watch as modern young man Liu Guangqi returns to that fiery era with a System space at his disposal and makes his mark. There’s no hostility here, only inspiration. He never intended to change anything in the courtyard, but his influence turns out to be so powerful that he ends up changing a lot. With such powerful support, why not marry a beautiful wife and have a few adorable children? As long as the people in the courtyard don’t provoke me, we’re good. The steel mill is my home base! What? Yo 3.6kReads8.0Score14014d adds
- 88 Siheyuan: They Framed Me and Sent Me Away for Reform! Just Wait Until I Get Out 四合院：诬陷我去改造！等我出来 Gao Zhenhua was an utterly ordinary food delivery rider in the 21st century. One day, while making a delivery, he struck it lucky and won a chance to transmigrate. In 1954, twenty years after transmigrating and being reborn, Gao Zhenhua awakened the memories of his past life. But instead of feeling happy, Gao Zhenhua felt as if the sky had fallen. A group of supposedly “loving neighbors” had framed him, and now he was being sent away for reform. 13.8kReads7.0Score38714d adds
- 89 I Transmigrated as Silly Zhu and Learned to Cultivate Immortality in the Siheyuan 穿越成傻柱，四合院里学修仙 A young man from the modern day transmigrates into a courtyard house and becomes Silly Zhu. He quietly learns immortal cultivation and becomes the world's only cultivator. Keeping a low profile, he fights back against the scheming neighbors and uses his storage space to give his family a prosperous life and keep them safe. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Siheyuan: Your Third Uncle Yan Is the Doorkeeper 四合院你闫家三大爷做门神 After inexplicably becoming Third Master Yan of the Yan family, he was convinced he wouldn’t survive more than a few days. On the third day, he received an equally inexplicable System. It gave him no tasks. All he had to do was stay alive! Yan Bugui, with his eventful life, Yan Laosan, a clock-in worker who’s given up, He Yushui, the financial calamity, Xu Damao, with a two-trillion-yuan goal. This is the survival saga of a man who doesn’t fit into this world! Come on in, make yourself at home! 661Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 91 An Artistic Life in the Siheyuan 四合院之文艺人生 The courtyard houses on Nanluoguxiang hide both the little dramas of family life and the scheming in people's hearts. Su Qing transmigrates into this world, hoping to lie flat and live as a carefree loafer, but the courtyard's endless drama keeps getting in his way. He slams a hand on the table: then he'll be the one to stir things up and rewrite a life full of petty troubles! The story strictly follows the logic of its era and stays true to the original characters. The protagonist is smart, has 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 Siheyuan: I Beat Up Bang Geng from the Start! Whoever Messes with Me Gets What's Coming! 四合院：开局揍棒梗！谁惹坑谁！ [System + Slice of Life + Showing Off and Face-Slapping] An accident sends a university student from the 21st century transmigrating to a courtyard, where he becomes He Yuzhu! He originally just wanted to live a quiet life, but who could have guessed that every last one of the courtyard’s menagerie of residents would be a piece of work? Qin Huairu is always trying to get something out of him, and she even lets Banggeng steal his things? He’ll make sure she gives up on that idea! From now on, he 1kReads5.3Score—14d adds
- 93 I Built a Mach 45 Fighter Jet, and My Little Factory Became a State-Owned Enterprise 造45马赫战机，我家小厂成国企 Zhang Yang is reborn and inherits the mess his family left behind. He obtains a battered old furnace passed down through the generations and embarks on a path to technology that defies the heavens. He builds a Mach 45 fighter jet and lives a sweet, happy life with his girlfriend, Lin Yue... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 This Silly Zhu in the Siheyuan Is Quite the Charmer 四合院这个傻柱有点潇洒 (If you don't like Qin Huairu, feel free to skip this.) He Yuzhu is reborn with a Negative Emotion Value System. Starting in 1952, he gets to Qin Huairu first and lives a full, satisfying life with little bitterness. Come see the everyday life of Silly Zhu! 6.9kReads8.9Score21714d adds
- 95 A Scumbag's Life After Reincarnating as Sha Zhu 魂穿傻柱的渣男人生 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 9.5kReads—Score50714d adds
- 96 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. 34.3kReads8.0Score1.6k14d adds
- 97 The Siheyuan: The Sincerity They Offered Mr. Gao 四合院，她们向高先生献上的诚意 After the male lead, Gao Yang, arrives in the siheyuan, everyone’s life is thrown into chaos. Silly Zhu wins over four beauties, while Yi Zhonghai helps him raise a child, thinking the child is his own... 234Reads7.4Score4514d adds
- 98 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—14d adds
- 99 Siheyuan: Reborn Silly Zhu Makes a Comeback in a New Era 四合院：重生傻柱逆袭年代 Wang Kui, a young man from the modern day, is reborn as ten-year-old He Yuzhu. He uses his storage space to keep his family well-fed and clothed, creates his own cultivation technique, and becomes the only cultivator. Using his cultivation abilities to change his family's fate, he turns his life around and becomes a winner. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Transmigrating to the Siheyuan, Reborn to a Fortune-Filled Life as Silly Zhu 穿越四合院，重生傻柱的财满人生 Yang Wei, a young man from the modern day, is visiting a Beijing courtyard house when heaven takes pity on him and strikes him dead with lightning. His soul transmigrates into He Yuzhu in a courtyard house in 1958. He wakes up bewildered and discovers a golden finger: a storage space and the strength of ten thousand jin. Thus begins an extreme clash between his personal selfishness and the collectivism of the 1950s. Silly Zhu fills his space with wealth and lives life to the fullest. 11Reads5.4Score—14d adds
