Novels like Siheyuan: From the Start, I Had a God-Tier Space, and the Fowls Were Green with Envy
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- 51 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
- 52 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
- 53 Siheyuan: I Transmigrate as Cai Quanwu and Pose as Silly Zhu's Uncle 四合院：穿越蔡全无，冒充傻柱叔 [Golden finger + peaceful daily life + no hostility + scheming + zany antics] After transmigrating into Cai Quanwu, the protagonist discovers that he is in the world of Birds Filling the Siheyuan. To play it safe, he blends into the Siheyuan, hoping to use his familiarity with the plot to make a name for himself, while also getting a taste of what it's like to be morally blackmailed by all those birds. Who knew that when he gave them a chance, they would prove useless? Now watch as our protagoni 28.5kReads8.4Score1.4k14d adds
- 54 Siheyuan: The Courtyard's Parasites Try to Grab an Inheritance, So I Teach Them a Lesson 四合院：众禽吃绝户，被我教做人 [Siheyuan + moderate hostility + scheming protagonist + slice of life + patriotic science and technology + changing history] Li Jianguo transmigrated by accident to the 1950s and became an inconspicuous resident in the world of the Siheyuan. The courtyard's schemers wanted to leave my family without an heir and take everything. I taught them a lesson instead. The Jia family wanted my house, so I served Jia Zhangshi a three-part recipe for despair. My brothers and I are of one heart, but I make s 4.3kReads7.9Score18714d adds
- 55 Reborn in the Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Rise in a Changing Era 重生四合院，逆袭年代的傻柱 A young man from the modern day transmigrates to a courtyard house in 1945 and becomes Silly Zhu as a boy. With a storage space to protect his mother and keep his younger sister safe, he creates his own cultivation technique and learns to cultivate. He becomes a rising star of the era... 4Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 56 Reborn in 1962: Slapping Qin Huairu in the Face from the Start 重生1962之开局怒扇禽淮茹 Siheyuan + rebirth in a bygone era + spatial dimension (the spatial dimension plays a minor role) Beneath a snow-swept bridge, He Yuzhu came to his senses. By a stroke of luck, he returned to the end of 1962 with his memories of his previous life! Looking at the familiar events unfolding before him after being reborn, He Yuzhu decided that since he’d been given another chance at life, he would live for himself this time, instead of throwing away his future for an old bachelor and a widowed leech 22kReads8.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 57 Lao Liu from the Courtyard's Propaganda Office 四合院宣传科的宋老六 Song Xiaofeng transmigrates and wakes up as a junior high school student who drowned in Songjia Village, a rural village on the outskirts of the capital. To get a decent meal as soon as possible, he studies hard and earns a place at a technical secondary school. He also becomes a publicity officer at a steel mill and ends up living next door to Xu Damao and Silly Zhu. 19.4kReads6.1Score68414d adds
- 58 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
- 59 Siheyuan: The Happy Life of an Eighth-Grade Worker 四合院之八级工的幸福生活 This novel has no System and no over-the-top melodrama, and things are relatively harmonious. Synopsis: Lin Yu transmigrates into a courtyard in the 1950s and gets a terrible start. Through his own hard work, he gradually becomes an eighth-grade worker and gives his family a happy life. 46.4kReads7.9Score1.9k14d adds
- 60 Siheyuan: The Brute Kicked Out of His Home 四合院之赶出家门的孽畜 A demolition heir who has never achieved anything, a bastard driven out of his home, two good-for-nothings fused into one person: what can he do in this unusual era? Achieve greatness? Forget it. He was only planning to shut the door and enjoy his own quiet life. Who could have guessed he'd end up in the legendary courtyard crawling with scoundrels? And it turns out he's the scoundrel himself. Troublemakers, rogues, and underworld bosses disrupt his peaceful life, while remnants, criminals, and 48.6kReads8.1Score3.3k14d adds
- 61 Siheyuan: I Move Out from the Start, Leaving the Courtyard Animals Stunned 四合院：开局搬走，众禽麻了 Lin Hai, a young man from a later era, transmigrates into the world of the courtyard house. Knowing full well that this menagerie of a compound is no place to stay, he moves out from the start without a moment's hesitation. Yi Zhonghai: “Lin Hai, could you empty the old lady's chamber pot for me…” Jia Zhangshi: “Lin Hai, my family is having money troubles. Could you donate a few dozen yuan…” Qin Huairu: “These steamed buns just came out of the steamer and are still hot. How about letting Banggen 34.9kReads5.4Score95614d adds
- 62 Siheyuan: Greeting Yi Zhonghai with News That He'll Die Childless from the Start 四合院：开局问候易中海绝户 [Not AI-written, so read with confidence] [Hilarious antics, outrageous schemes] What happens when the ultimate fun-seeker, Wang Dalong, shows up at the courtyard house? Yi Zhonghai: I'm moving out. This dump is impossible to live in! Silly Zhu: You can leave, but Auntie Yi and the child are staying! Yan Bugui: By my calculations, it's time to pay protection money again. Xu Damao: Dalong is my very best friend! Lou Xiao'e: Damao, time to take your medicine. Liu Haizhong: Quiet down, everyone. Th 29.8kReads8.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 63 Siheyuan: I Beat Three Generations of One Family on My First Day Home 四合院：回家第一天揍了祖孙三代 The courtyard scoundrels: Xu Changqing, let go of Silly Zhu! Xu Changqing: How can I stop halfway through beating someone? [Ding~ The Host refuses everyone’s demand to stop, triggering a tenfold critical bonus!] [Reward: Mastery of Bajiquan, ten Forever-brand bicycles, one hundred jin of cooking oil, one hundred jin of chicken, and one hundred jin of vegetables.] Qin Huairu: Xu Changqing, how about you help me raise my child? Xu Changqing: An old ox still wants to eat tender grass? Get lost! [Di 3.5kReads6.0Score—14d adds
- 64 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
- 65 Siheyuan: A Wild Boar Gets Me a Ten-Mu Greenhouse from the Start 四合院：开局野猪送我十亩地大棚 [Gossip] [Watching the Show] [Period] [Transmigration] [Purchasing Agent] [Invincible] [Witty] [Funny] [Daily Life] [One Female Lead] [Ruthless] PS: The Courtyard House content doesn’t make up a particularly large portion of this story. Most of it focuses on the protagonist’s everyday life. If that’s not your thing, don’t read! PS: The male lead has a pet companion who provides the comedy, but the pet’s role becomes less prominent later on. If you’re not into pets, feel free to skip those part 39.8kReads8.3Score2.5k14d adds
- 66 A Reborn Life in the Siheyuan 重生之四合院人生 A new story is here! You're welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 A Hilarious Tale of Immortals and Heroes 仙侠笑传 A new story is here! You're welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 51Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 68 Siheyuan: Damou's Brother-in-Law Has an Iron Body, What a Scammer 四合院：大茂妹夫铁身躯，坑人啊 [The hottest Siheyuan story of 2025] [Sneaky schemer] [Funny] [Prankster] [Lots of conflict] [Feel-good power fantasy] He befriends Xu Damao and Li Huaide. Xu Damao is the brother-in-law of Sha Zhu. He sets traps for all the other troublemakers. This book is all about pranks: first, he swindles them out of their pocket money, then he makes them suffer miserably. Don't read if that's not your thing! 22.4kReads6.0Score53314d adds
- 69 Siheyuan: I, Jia Dongxu, Want to Be Reborn Too! 四合院：我贾东旭也要重生！ [Love in the Courtyard; wish-fulfillment!!!; comedy; transmigration; one female lead (Qin Huairu); pocket dimension] Silly Zhu next door has been working himself to the bone around the clock. It's about time I, Jia Dongxu, got to be the main character!!! Reincarnated as a man doomed to die young? This time, I'll hold this family together! You won't teach me properly? I'll cut ties with Yi Zhonghai and find myself a new master! Yi Zhonghai: “Dongxu, I was wrong!” Caught Jia Zhangshi sneaking 29.7kReads8.6Score1.7k14d adds
- 70 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 25.5kReads8.2Score1k14d adds
- 71 Siheyuan: Beautiful, Don’t Be Like That 四合院：美女别这样 [Courtyard Life + Multiple Female Leads + Decisive Actions + System] After transmigrating as a new resident in the courtyard who was being bullied to death by the old folks expecting him to support them, he reports them to the police and gets Jia Zhangshi sent to the firing squad, while Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, and Yan Bugui are thrown in jail. He blocks the entrance to Deaf Granny’s home and eats egg cakes, making the old hag shriek with envy. Can helping others really earn rewards? How does 66.9kReads7.3Score4.3k14d adds
- 72 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 9.2kReads7.6Score29514d adds
- 73 A New Life Begins in the Siheyuan 四合院开始新人生 A modern-day antique shop owner and part-time collector buys a jade talisman on the black market, then dies in a car accident. The talisman is activated, and he transmigrates to the 1950s. Realizing that his misfortune has brought him an incredible opportunity, he is reborn into a new life. From then on, he becomes a man of many talents: by day, an ordinary government cadre; behind the scenes, a cultivator, collector, and major black-market dealer, among other identities. In the end, he breaks f 22.6kReads7.7Score1.4k14d adds
- 74 Siheyuan: Getting By in the Era with a Game System 四合院，带着游戏系统混年代 Li Qinghe accidentally transmigrates into a television drama world set in 1955. In this composite world, where many period dramas have been brought together, Li Qinghe uses a video game cheat and works hard alongside his family to build a better life. Moving into a siheyuan, watching the drama, enjoying the gossip: a laid-back slice of life. No angst, no angst, no angst. If that's not your thing, don't come in! 44.9kReads8.3Score2.1k14d adds
- 75 Siheyuan: Bully a Martyr’s Family? From the Start, Silly Zhu Goes to Prison 四合院：欺辱烈属？开局傻柱进牢 A nineteen-year-old boy whose parents are both dead is cheated out of his family inheritance. After unlocking a golden finger, watch as he fights back, deals with the vile scoundrels, and finds a way to live well. With an Emotion Collection System, what will he do to gather enough emotion points? How will the fate of the courtyard change? 31.1kReads6.4Score1k14d adds
- 76 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- 15.8kReads7.3Score52614d adds
- 77 Siheyuan: I'm Yi Zhonghai's Biological Son 四合院：我是易中海的亲儿子 A modern mechanical engineer transmigrates into the world of the courtyard and becomes Yi Zhonghai's biological son. With a son of his own, will Yi Zhonghai still scheme against others? Will Silly Zhu still become their meal ticket? Will Love in the Courtyard still turn into a courtyard full of beasts? Ordinary people just want enough to eat and warm clothes. There's no need for so much resentment or sinister scheming, just everyday family squabbles. In this backward era, do your best to help de 37kReads9.2Score1.6k14d adds
- 78 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 56.8kReads6.4Score3.3k14d adds
- 79 Siheyuan: He Daqing Steals Qin Huairu Away, More Children, More Blessings 四合院何大清截胡秦淮茹多子多福 No poison, a pocket dimension, and a fast pace! He transmigrates into a Siheyuan, where Qin Huairu is still unmarried, so he’d better marry her before anyone else does! With a pocket dimension at his disposal and his combat power maxed out from the start, I’m not going to hold back! No self-righteous saint, no sneaky schemer, and no waiting until tomorrow. If there’s nothing going on, I’ll find an excuse to slap a few people around! 3.5kReads5.5Score10014d adds
- 80 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.) 83.7kReads5.5Score3.8k14d adds
- 81 Siheyuan: Seeing the Scheme Through to the End 四合院之将截胡进行到底 [Multiple female leads, not for everyone] [Protagonists from various TV dramas collide, each with their own protagonist aura] [Disinfecting with iodine while whipping] Siheyuan, Zhengyang Gate, People Are Like Iron, Glorious Times, The Great New Era, Golden Wedding, Hutong, The Qiao Family Children... In the Name of the People, Ordinary Years, The War Between Two Women] [System for stealing female leads, self-interest, do-gooders, stay away] [No original female leads, characters from other stori 199.3kReads9.0Score13.5k14d adds
- 82 After the College Entrance Exam, I Used My Foresight to Become a Tycoon 回到高考后，利用先知成富豪 By a twist of fate, Chen Feiyu returns to the day after his class reunion, held after the college entrance exam. Using his information advantage, he makes up for past regrets. From the start, he sets his sights on the Brazil World Cup to earn his first fortune, then uses his expertise and memories to grow his money in the stock market. He also keeps in touch with his high school crush and his senior from university, wins the hearts of both beauties, and becomes a winner in life! 2.8kReads—Score11014d adds
