Novels like Siheyuan: Capturing All Worlds, Starting with a Refugee Exodus
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- 1 A Carefree Life in the Siheyuan 四合院之惬意人生 A modern young man is struck by lightning and his soul travels into a courtyard house. Watch how he survives in this turbulent era and outwits the many scheming residents of the courtyard... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 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
- 3 Merit Begins in the Siheyuan 功德从四合院开始 He Yuzhu glared at the Hongmeng Merit System with two bloodshot eyes. “Xiaobei, get out here and show yourself! Where's my starter pack? Did you embezzle it?” Xiaobei: “...Yan Zi says this is the most beautiful world!” He Yuzhu hurriedly clapped his hands over his ears. “Oh, ancestor, please, stop singing!” Then, dragging a battered halberd behind him, he began hacking his way through one world after another, starting with the courtyard compound! 220Reads6.6Score104Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: An Ordinary Life on an Ordinary Road 四合院：平凡人生平凡路 He Aijun died in the dilapidated courtyard of his old family home. When he first watched Love in the Courtyard, he had even laughed at its male lead, He Yuzhu. He never imagined he would end up with the same fate as He Yuzhu. He Aijun’s soul floated in the air as he watched the villagers gather his body and bury him in his family’s ancestral grave. Even at the very end, he never saw the four ungrateful wretches he had raised. Just as He Aijun’s heart turned to ash, a powerful suction force appea 18Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Knocked Yi Zhonghai Out. Let Me Handle This 四合院之开局敲晕易中海，让我来 “Huairu, only you and I know about this. If you tell anyone, you know what’ll happen: paraded through the streets, publicly denounced, sent back to the countryside. Could you take any of that? Besides, with things as they are, what would you say if someone caught us?” As Qin Huairu stood there, her face drained of color with fear, not far away, Yan Jiefang, a “model” young man who had just been knocked back to 1958 with a club, felt his blood surge. He immediately snatched up a little wooden sti 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu and His Many Descendants 四合院之傻柱儿孙满堂 [Siheyuan + Period Novel + One Heroine + Pocket Dimension + Business + Qin Huairu Not Favored] He Yuzhu, a third-generation rich kid, is caught in a sudden hailstorm and transmigrates into the body of the notorious Silly Zhu, who shares his name. He uses his sister, He Yushui, to track down their estranged father, He Daqing, then gets He Daqing to extort a sum from his rival Xu Damao. He Daqing also recovers years of unpaid child support, splits it between the siblings, and teaches the hypocrite 1.3kReads7.1Score114Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: The Fool's Extraordinary Life 四合院：傻子的妖孽人生 A Muay Thai champion is reborn as a dim-witted orphan and bullied by the thugs in his courtyard. After activating the System, he gathers negative emotions, plays crazy and stupid to turn the tables on the wicked, and reinvents himself as a fortune-teller. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: I, He Yuzhu, Won't Be Anyone's Retirement Plan 四合院：我何雨柱不当养老人 Silly Zhu, the courtyard house’s legendary tough guy, has reached the end of his life when he freezes to death beneath Yongding River Bridge. He has lived a colorful, glorious life and has plenty of regrets, but there are things he still can’t let go of. So Heaven gives him a chance to be reborn, sending him back to July 1951, one month after He Daqing leaves. Life is hard, but he has to keep going. From this day on, Silly Zhu will be no more, and it’s time for the nasty residents of the courtya 1.9kReads6.2Score108Shelves
- 9 Siheyuan: My Life as a Procurement Officer 四合院之我的采购员生活 Su Ming, an orphan from the twenty-first century, wakes up one day to find he has transmigrated into Love in the Courtyard. See how Su Ming stirs up trouble in the courtyard... 606Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: I’m Only Eighteen, So Why Am I Having a Midlife Comeback? 四合院：才十八，让我中年逆袭？ Chen Weimin transmigrated, and it's 1962? The world of Love in the Courtyard? Is this what they call a hellish start? Of course not! His predecessor was a good-for-nothing who had once threatened his parents for money with a sickle and stabbed himself three times in a fight! And he transmigrated right into the scene where his father was about to club him to death with a hoe? How's he supposed to get out of this? Luckily, he has a System! But why is this System so deranged? I'm a fine young man, 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: A Barber's Personal Code 四合院之一个剃头匠的自我修养 Four-Sided Courtyard + System + Space + Connected Stories + Everyday Family Life + Setting the Courtyard Straight In the winter of 2025, Song Huanduo accidentally transmigrates to Nanluoguxiang and is assigned to Courtyard No. 95. His parents have vanished, his relationship is unaccepted, and danger is lurking. While working at a bakery, a stroke of luck sees him become an assistant to the head of the steel mill’s logistics department. After suffering at the hands of the retirement clique, he is 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: Life Is Tough, and I Can't Take the Hardship! 四合院：生活艰难，吃不了苦！ [Male-Oriented Derivative] [Siheyuan] [System] [Transmigration] [Pocket Dimension] What would life be like after transmigrating to a Siheyuan in 1958 and acquiring a [Daily Subsistence System]? Watch how the big guy Lin Xuan handles it! 5Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: Awaken the System and Crush the Beastly Neighbors 四合院：觉醒系统，吊打众禽 I’m Yu Zhu, a 21st-century delivery worker, one of the working stiffs. And then, as luck would have it, I got hit by a truck. The good news is that I transmigrated and got a System. The bad news is that I ended up in the Beastly Courtyard, facing a pack of neighbors rubbing their hands together, mouths agape as they close in to attack. He Yuzhu doesn’t wait until tomorrow to get revenge. All I want in this life is to be a cook, marry a woman from Mizhi, have a few children, and enjoy a warm bed 15.9kReads7.3Score779Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: The Way of Survival Reigns Supreme 四合院之苟道为王 The story begins in 1951 and ends in 2000. The Siheyuan tale revolves around Deaf Granny and Yi Zhonghai's retirement, with smaller stories about the courtyard's various families interwoven throughout. The protagonist grows up at the Third Steel Rolling Plant. There is little hostility, just the give and take of everyday life. 2.9kReads5.1Score109Shelves
- 15 The Siheyuan: Driving a Big Rig at the Steel Mill 四合院之我在轧钢厂开大车 Zhang Shenglong, a modern truck driver, transmigrates after a traffic accident to a courtyard-world in 1953, taking over the body of a man with the same name. His birth father has died in a car accident, leaving behind his mother and younger sister. Faced with a hellish start, he takes on the burden of supporting the family and agrees to help Silly Zhu, a childhood friend of the original owner, stand up to the retirement-fund clique. All he wants is to live his own life. 25Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 16 Siheyuan: Winning Over a Rich Woman and Becoming a Winner in Life 四合院：拿下富婆，做人生赢家 Zhou Bingwen transmigrates into a merged world of Love in the Courtyard and Little Woman at Zhengyang Gate. Because of his job, he settles in the capital, living in Nanluoguxiang and working at a steel mill. He only wanted to live a quiet life, but his abilities wouldn’t let him. Forced to, he makes his mark in this turbulent era… 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Invisible Empire That Began in a Beijing Courtyard 从四合院开始的隐形帝国 The rating has just come out, and it’s a little low. [Love in the Courtyard + Whole Family Transmigrates + One Female Lead + No Cruelty + Behind-the-Scenes + Stockpiling Supplies + No Causing Trouble + No Getting Involved with Ruzhi + Changing Silly Zhu and Damao’s Lives] The Su family is sent to the world of Love in the Courtyard when their car explodes. The jade pendant they carry with them transforms into a spiritual spring dimension. With memories of the future, the family is ready to make t 383Reads6.5Score104Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: The Humble Life of an Ordinary Man 四合院：升斗小民的平淡人生 After transmigrating into Love in the Courtyard, and into the Yan family, who spend every day trying to take advantage of others, Yan Jiekang feels like the sky is falling. There are no heaven-defying powers here, nor any satisfying face-slapping stories. It’s just the ordinary, everyday life of regular folks. 753Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Starts Out Taking Advantage of a Widow's Household 四合院，何雨柱开局吃绝户 After his death, the elderly Sha Zhu learns that everything was nothing but a scheme. Drifting for a hundred years as a spirit, he has become far more worldly than the illiterate fool he once was. The System sends him back to another timeline, to the day after Jia Dongxu's death in 1962. From the start, he swindles Yi Zhonghai out of a hundred yuan, collecting a little interest from the household without an heir before turning his attention to revenge against the whole flock of animals. Only aft 9.6kReads7.2Score434Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: The Despair of the Beasts 四合院：众禽的绝望 Yang Jie accidentally transmigrates to a Siheyuan in 1961. When he wakes, he finds the original owner's mother about to hang herself. After inheriting the original owner's memories, the beasts of the Siheyuan are in for hard times! 1.4kReads6.6Score102Shelves
- 21 This Silly Zhu Isn't Stupid 这个傻柱并不傻 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what drives me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 171Reads5.7Score105Shelves
- 22 Starting Out at Fengzeyuan in the Siheyuan 四合院从丰泽园开始 My new work is here! Feel free to check it out on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 929Reads6.5Score103Shelves
- 23 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
- 24 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. 16.2kReads6.4Score778Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: My Wife Looks Just Like Liu Tianxian 四合院：我的媳妇酷似刘天仙 A brainless feel-good story, a brainless feel-good story, a brainless feel-good story. Some things bear repeating... Ye Fan transmigrates to 1958. From the start, he gets Silly Zhu sent to prison. No dragging things out, no saintly behavior. A few years later, Silly Zhu is reborn and gets out of prison early... I can't do the synopsis justice, so please read the story... 12.2kReads6.4Score671Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: A House and a Wife for the Taking 四合院之送房送媳妇 [Feel-Good] [Comedy] [Putting the Bullies Through Hell] [Taking the Initiative] Chen Feng transmigrates into the world of a period drama. Walking the line between law and discipline, he uses his abilities and a convenient scapegoat to take the fight to the neighborhood's bullies. His own life should be carefree, while the bullies should suffer miserably, living in misery and howling in pain. Old Deaf Granny: “Chen Feng's wife, I only told you once to choose Silly Zhu. You've tormented me for yea 9Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 27 Siheyuan: The Liu Family's World 四合院之刘家天下 Liu Guangqi was an ordinary small-business owner in the 21st century. After a night of drinking and discussing business, he ran into a woman driver, and one stomp on the gas sent him straight into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Let's see how Liu Guangqi survives in this courtyard full of “kindness.” Liu Haizhong: “My son is a cadre, so everyone listens to him. Lao Yi, use his title at formal occasions.” Liu Guangtian: “Just listen to my brother. Whoever he says to take down, we take down. M 1.3kReads8.4Score107Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: As Xu Damao, I'll Live It Up One Day at a Time 四合院：成许大茂能浪一天算一天 Trapped by the System in the world of the courtyard house, he restarted his life nine times and became Xu Damao, the one character everyone hated, both people and dogs alike, and the story's sole villain. Forget personal standards and enjoy a shameless life. Make each day count, and take things as they come. Going to the countryside to screen films is a way to bring warmth to people's spirits. Eating and lodging at other people's homes is a way to bring warmth to their lives. As long as you give —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: I Open My Eyes to Find Qin Huairu at Nineteen 四合院：睁眼看见十九岁的秦淮茹 Lin Kai was hit by a dump truck and sent to the outskirts of Qin Family Village in 1952. It was the height of summer. A girl with her hair in braids was gathering firewood outside the village when she spotted someone lying by the river. “Comrade, comrade, you can’t sleep here!” The girl cupped some river water in her mouth and sprayed it onto Lin Kai’s face, waking him up. Lin Kai looked at her. Three parts familiar, four parts strange, and the remaining three parts as if he’d seen her somewhere 43Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 30 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Is Released from Prison, and I Stand Above All 四合院：傻柱刑满释放，唯我独尊 [A Must-Read for Fans of Siheyuan Stories] He transmigrates into a siheyuan and becomes He Yuzhu. Imprisoned from the start. Activates the Strongest Disciple-Taking System. He persuades people to turn over a new leaf. And begins an extraordinary life. … 2.2kReads5.8Score—Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: I Am Yan Bugui 四合院：我是阎埠贵 Note: This is fan fiction based on the TV series! The story does not rewrite the original! The story does not rewrite the original! The story does not rewrite the original! [No hostility] + [Faithful to the original] + [Everyday life in a bygone era] + [System] Synopsis: After dying, Yan Bugui is reborn in 1964. With help from the System, he can acquire all kinds of supplies continuously. At the same time, he sees the true nature of the people in the courtyard and of his own children. So he deci 792Reads6.3Score101Shelves
- 32 Siheyuan: Just After Soul Transmigration, I Snatched Qin Huairu! 四合院：刚魂穿，截胡秦淮茹！ [Siheyuan + Transmigration] [Lighthearted + Slice of Life] [System + Portable Pocket Dimension] [One Female Lead + Multiple Women] [The Myriad Worlds] [Avatars] Liu Jianjun woke up to find that his soul had transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard. He had become a twenty-year-old orphan. This man was also named Liu Jianjun, and he was a petty thug. It was late 1951, less than two months after the Silly Zhu next door had been abandoned by He Daqing. He heard that Jia Dongxu next 9.8kReads6.2Score533Shelves
- 33 War of Resistance: Starting with a Trek Across Snowy Mountains and Grasslands 抗战：从爬雪山过草地开始 Xiao Zhengdong transmigrates to 1934 and becomes a scout. Faced with layers of blockades and encirclement, as well as snow-capped mountains, grasslands, and marshes, Xiao Zhengdong decides to embark on a perilous journey. Witness an epic tale of heroes. 1.3kReads6.8Score—Shelves
- 34 The Friendly Daily Life of the Siheyuan 四合院的友好日常 Zhang Zhenhua, born into this world, works hard to make a life for himself in a siheyuan. He has a small world of his own, but time passes at the same rate as in the outside world, and it takes years just to cultivate a few plots of land. His whole family strives to get by in the city, while interacting with the people of the siheyuan... 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 35 Siheyuan: Yan Jiecheng Has a Fishing System 四合院：阎解成有个垂钓系统 [Domestic everyday life without bitterness + one heroine] In 1955, Yan Jiecheng accidentally fell into the water and was reborn after his soul transmigrated into another body. At sixteen, he faced a major turning point: take the high school entrance exam or drop out and get a job? The first thing Yan Jiecheng did after waking up was declare: “I'm going to vocational school! I'll become a government official and bring honor to the family.” Yan Bugui said, “You're the old ancestor of this family! 767Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 36 Siheyuan Farming: My Farm Can Travel Between Worlds 四合院种田记：我的农场能穿梭 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 What Are You Doing, Honey? You’re Drunk Again 干嘛呢，媳妇你又喝多了 Reborn from student to dad, with a happy mother to his child. Reborn, he nearly becomes a father overnight, and begins a sweet romance with the child's mother ahead of schedule... An easygoing, laid-back story about making money, with a livestream that unexpectedly goes viral and brings in a fortune. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Carpenter Life of Yan Jiecheng in Siheyuan 四合院阎解成的木匠生活 A modern young man transmigrates into Yan Jiefang in the siheyuan courtyard. His soul fuses with the computer from his previous life, creating a System panel that also comes with a pocket dimension. The System can record the knowledge he learns and share it with him. Starting out as a humble carpenter, Yan Jiefang begins a simple yet colorful life in this era. 1.9kReads6.2Score153Shelves
- 39 Lin Yuanji's Second Book 林元吉的第2本书 My new work is out! You can head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 152Reads6.1Score118Shelves
- 40 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. 644Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: The Perfect 6.19 Edition 四合院六点一九完美版 Title: The Courtyard, Perfect Edition, June 19 There are countless courtyard stories on Tomatoes. And countless more courtyards that readers have seen. My courtyard story has no System! Pay attention! No System! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Siheyuan: Starting at Ten, I Flee the Famine with My Little Sister 四合院十岁开局带妹妹逃荒 Lin Shitou transmigrates into the body of a ten-year-old boy. Before Liberation in 1948, his entire family starved to death while fleeing famine. Only his two younger sisters survived, one five years old and the other four. Lin Shitou takes his sisters and flees all the way to the capital, settling at Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. But when he finally gets settled, he discovers that the familiar “old neighbors” next door are none other than the hypocrite Yi Zhonghai, the power-hungry Liu Hai 2.9kReads6.3Score134Shelves
- 43 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—Score2.8kShelves
- 44 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! 66Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 45 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—Shelves
- 46 Siheyuan: From the Start, Transmigrate into He Yuzhu and Crush the Yard's Villains 四合院：开局穿何雨柱，干翻众禽 He Yumo transmigrates into the body of He Yuzhu, who died of a heart attack, and begins a new life as He Yuzhu. At the same time, he awakens a kill-to-earn sign-in reward System. As long as he kills people to punish the courtyard's beasts, he can receive unexpected rewards from the System. These include aircraft carriers and all kinds of heavy weaponry. It has everything. From then on, he kills the matchmaker first, then Huaihua, and next Jia Dongxu. He won't spare anyone who harmed him. After 14kReads7.3Score680Shelves
- 47 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 16.8kReads7.6Score805Shelves
- 48 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 6.4kReads7.1Score216Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: Amid the Crowds, Her Graceful Glance Captivated Me 四合院：众里嫣然通一顾 [Cathartic beast-bashing] [Angling for all things] [Multiple heroines, no harem handouts] [All-around male lead] This Love in the Courtyard is different: the women, including Qin Huairu, are even more beautiful and shapely than they were at the height of their looks. From the start, Cheng Wenyuan, a graduate of a university of Chinese medicine who became a doctor at a steel mill, was surrounded by the courtyard's beasts, including Jia Zhangshi, Yi Zhonghai, and Silly Zhu. His golden finger awak 6.3kReads6.9Score274Shelves
- 50 From the Start, I Beat Banggeng to Death, and Yi Zhonghai Was Next 开局打死棒梗，随后就是易中海 [Multiple worlds + transmigration + revenge + resurrection + no saintly do-gooder + slaughtering the beasts] Lin Luo, a young man from the twenty-first century, died after getting so worked up while watching Love in the Courtyard. He then transmigrated into the TV drama Love in the Courtyard, arriving in the 1940s as an idiot. In 1962, eighteen-year-old Lin Luo was accidentally beaten to death by Silly Zhu. Yi Zhonghai arranged for his body to be buried in a mass grave. Fortunately, the System c 1.7kReads6.1Score105Shelves
