Novels like Siheyuan: Surviving Since 1948
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- 1 Reborn in 1943: I Nearly Got Killed on Arrival from the Start 魂穿1943：开局差点落地成盒 Mercenary Gu Yaohui was betrayed and killed during a mission. By chance, he activated his family’s heirloom ring and his soul traveled back to the thirty-second year of the Republic of China. Watch as he stirs up a storm in the Republican era, then heads to Hong Kong after the Japanese surrender and becomes the richest Chinese man there. 4.4kReads7.3Score159Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: A Day in the Life of Cao Zhenhua 四合院:曹振华的一天 [Supplies]+ [System]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Bear Beauty Split]+ [Absolutely No Bottom Line] Cao Zhenhua transmigrates to a vibrant era, going from a Siheyuan to the world stage. When dealing with the many scoundrels in the Siheyuan, he follows one principle: be a man with sharp edges, someone who’ll hurt anyone who touches him! When dealing with countries around the world, he follows one principle: take the blame in this life, earn glory for generations to come! Cao Zhenhua also awakens a spatia 999Reads7.0Score102Shelves
- 3 From Fighting the Japanese in 1942 to Love in the Courtyard, 从1942打鬼子到情满四合院， Wang Tiezhu, sixteen years old, from Baoding, Hebei. He's a new recruit in the Eighth Route Army's Third Independent Regiment, First Battalion, Third Company of the Jizhong Military Region, and has been enlisted for only three months. This afternoon, while their company was covering the villagers' evacuation, they were ambushed by Japanese and puppet troops. The battle was horrific: the company commander and platoon leader were killed, the unit was scattered, and Wang was hit in the left arm by 177Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: From the Start of the Famine, I Had a Blessed Pocket Realm 四合院：饥荒开局，随身洞天福地 Yang Peng wakes up as a poor rural boy in 1960, during a famine. His family has nothing, and his younger siblings are on the brink of death. From the start, he's in hell mode, and a vicious wild boar drives him off a cliff! At the brink of death, he unexpectedly discovers a hidden realm within the cliff. The Blessed Cave Abode recognizes him as its master, a spirit spring tempers his body, and he can farm with a mere thought! While others chew tree bark, his space is packed with grain and livest 577Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: I Became a Big Shot Through Sign-In, Leaving the Troublemakers Stunned 四合院：签到成大佬，众禽傻眼了 [Siheyuan]+ [Period Novel]+ [Sign-In System]+ [Everyday Putdowns of the Courtyard Schemes]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [Ultimate Wish-Fulfillment] After his career goes bust, Shen Xingbang unexpectedly transmigrates to a Siheyuan in Beijing in 1965. The orphaned son of a fallen hero, he has three younger siblings to raise! His siblings are sweet and sensible, but they’re suffering alongside him. His heart aches for them, and he vows to give his family a better life! With a sign-in reward System at 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: Starting Out in the 1942 Famine 四合院之1942饥荒开局 In 2025, Li Ping’an woke up to find that he had become Yi Rui-dong, a dying boy caught in the great famine of 1942 in Henan Province. Corpses littered the land, Japanese invaders ran rampant, and Beiping gasped for breath beneath their rising-sun flag. Fortunately, Yi Zhonghai, the “Celestial Worthy of the Dao,” rescued him and took him in at Courtyard No. 95, Nanluoguxiang. He thought he had merely transmigrated into the opening of Love in the Courtyard, but then he unexpectedly bound himself t 8.1kReads5.7Score265Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: From Otherworldly Warrior to Immortal Cultivator 四合院：从异人到修仙 [Parallel Universes + Crossover of TV Series and Films + Siheyuan Courtyard + Period Drama + Multiple Heroines + System] Wang Ye is an ordinary college student, born under the red flag and raised in the spring breeze. Just as he is about to leave the army and enjoy college life, he transmigrates after saving a child from drowning, arriving in a world where various film and television dramas have merged. It is home to the menagerie from Love in the Courtyard, famous throughout the heavens for its 228Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: Reborn in the 1940s, I Left the Whole Courtyard in Shock 四合院：重生40年代，全院麻了 At sixteen, Li Kaishan returned to the 1940s and joined the War of Resistance. During a battle to hold off enemy reinforcements, he held his position for eight hours. In the end, his entire company died heroically, and he was gravely wounded and fell into a deep sleep. Later, the villagers of Zhaojiayu rescued him. He awakened his System and unlocked sign-in rewards. After he recovered, he married Yang Xiuqin, the prettiest girl in Zhaojiayu. Old Li may not be particularly capable, but he's exce 126Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 I Transmigrated to 1945, and I Want to Go Home 穿越一九四五，我想回家 An esper who survived the apocalypse is reborn in 1945. The original owner of the body was knocked unconscious by an explosion because he was wearing a Japanese military uniform. When the Japanese surrendered, they took his body back to Japan. As a Chinese man, all he wants is to return home, but he keeps running into one obstacle after another. 5.7kReads8.3Score227Shelves
- 10 Steady Resistance Against Japan: I'm Settling Down in the Capital! 稳健抗日：我要安家四九城！ [Period] + [War of Resistance] + [Space] + [Traditional Chinese Medicine] + [Hong Kong] + [Family] + [Patriotism] Modern man Wang Qingping was reborn in a parallel world in 1937, where he was still a ten-year-old boy. Thinking of everything that would happen in this era, he felt a little panicked: Damn, the full-scale War of Resistance was about to break out. Luckily, the System that helped him escape had left him some resources. With that, he had the confidence to help his family live better li 1.2kReads6.8Score100Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: The Beast-Wrangling System 四合院：综视禽兽收割系统 Su Yang was dumped by an unreliable intern System into a courtyard house in 1948, only to discover he’d landed in a “Beasts’ Universe” where period dramas had all merged together. Yi Zhonghai’s moral blackmail was no match for the System’s reward, the Handbook of Ideological Imprinting. The Deaf Old Lady’s lies about her military achievements couldn’t stand up to the “Distinguished Meritorious Hero” plaque hanging on the wall. When Jia Zhangshi threw a tantrum, Su Yang sent Jia Dongxu straight t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Reborn in Siheyuan: The Whole Courtyard Begs for Mercy 重生四合院：全院极品跪服 Can you believe it? Lin Jianjun, a decent and honest technician at a steel mill, was schemed against by the whole courtyard of troublemakers! Granny Jia framed him for stealing a chicken, ruining his reputation; Xu Damao set him up to lose his job, cutting off his livelihood; and Qin Huairu pretended to be kind while bleeding him dry! In the end, his wife was angered to death, and he froze to death on the street, while those awful people trampled over his corpse and lived high on the hog! Heaven 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Siheyuan Beginning in 1945 从45年开始的四合院 An accident while saving someone sent Sun Yaozu's soul to a parallel world, where he found himself in Sun Village outside Changping, in the capital, just as the Japanese had surrendered. 11.4kReads7.1Score400Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: I'm Camel Xiangzi, and Killing Invaders Gets Me Loot 四合院：我骆驼祥子，杀鬼子爆装 [Fighting the Japanese Invaders + Rickshaw Boy + Wolf Smoke + New World + Multiple Film and TV Universes] Li Xiang, an overworked office employee, dies suddenly after working overtime and transmigrates to Beiping in 1936, where he becomes Xiangzi the Camel, a man who pulled rickshaws all his life and never even got to keep one of his own. After two lifetimes of being worked like an ox and a horse, he knows there’s no future in that. He’s ready to risk everything for a different way of life. A pe 535Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: Joining the Steel Mill and Marrying the Fairest, Most Virtuous Wife 四合院：入职轧钢厂，娶最美贤妻 [Transmigration + courtyard drama + System + mild hostility + one female lead + no living on scraps] After transmigrating, he becomes Silly Zhu’s maternal uncle in the beast-filled courtyard and is assigned to Courtyard No. 95 after leaving the army. From the start, he ruins Yi Zhonghai’s plan for his old age and sends him on an all-expenses-paid trip to the northwest, with free food and lodging. After leaving the military, should he become a promising public security officer at the police stati 17.2kReads7.1Score876Shelves
- 16 The Whole Family Transmigrates Together into Siheyuan. Leave None Behind! 四合院，全家组团穿，一个别留！ Lin Shengli is the third son of the Lin family, an unlucky guy and a naive, somewhat foolish college student. When the hotel where his family is celebrating his grandfather's birthday collapses, he ends up on the eve of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan. To his surprise, his cousins come along too, as does his grandfather. Facing the Japanese devils, Lin Shengli is thrilled. His chance to kill the enemy openly and without remorse has finally arrived! As for the scoundrels in the cou 1.8kReads7.0Score105Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: Fleeing the Famine Begins with an Arranged Ghost Marriage 四合院：逃荒从被配冥婚开始 [Fleeing famine + killing Japanese invaders + Drawing Sword + espionage + Four-House Courtyard and other TV worlds] From the start, in 1942, during a year of severe drought and famine, Gu Kaizhi's father and older brother disappeared. His beautiful sister-in-law was being forced into a ghost marriage with the son of a wealthy landlord. Gu Kaizhi awakened memories of his past life and activated the Glory System. He rescued his sister-in-law and, following the clues, fled with her and his younger 3.5kReads7.2Score146Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: I Can Rewind Time and Solve Cases Like a God 四合院：我，回溯，破案如神 [Period drama + courtyard compound + taking on villains + solving crimes + slightly altered plot + everyday life] Zhang Jianjun opened his eyes to find himself in Nanluoguxiang in 1963, now a newly arrived police officer at the local station. His modern police methods were useless here. The courtyard was crawling with scoundrels, and none of them considered him one of their own. But he awakened the [Eye of Retracing]: by touching evidence, he could witness the bloody truth of a crime scene first —Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 19 Honghuang: I, Ziwei Great Emperor, Open Up the Starry Sky 洪荒：吾紫微大帝，开辟星空 Conflict had raged since the Primordial World first came into being, as countless divine beings fought to pursue the Great Dao. Wang Chen was born beneath the boundless starry sky, a primordial divine being nurtured by Ziwei Star. As a soul transmigrated from Blue Star, Wang Chen gazed at the endless heavens and resolved to follow a path unlike that of any other divine being in the Primordial World. He would open each star into its own small world. Countless living beings would be born within th 1.4kReads6.8Score126Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu at 16 in 1944 四合院：1944少年何雨柱 After transmigrating into the role of a young Silly Zhu in a period drama, he finds himself in a world that includes not only Love in the Courtyard, but also A Little Woman at Zhengyang Gate. See how I change my fate and alter the course of the story. 131Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 21 Siheyuan: From the Start, Fleeing to the Capital in 1941 四合院：开局1941逃难四九城 Courtyard house + pocket dimension + defending the homeland + resisting the Americans and aiding Korea + one heroine. Li Ping'an, an orphan from the twenty-first century and an inheritor of Bajiquan, is drugged and beaten to death after fighting in underground boxing matches. He transmigrates to Henan in 1941, into the body of a ten-year-old boy who had nearly starved to death. The boy is also named Li Ping'an. His parents starved to death trying to save him some food, and their bodies are still 34kReads6.4Score1.3kShelves
- 22 Reborn in 1942 with a Pocket Dimension 带着空间重生1942 Wang Dajun is reborn in 1942. When he wakes up, he discovers he has a dim-witted younger brother, and that his parents were killed by the Japanese. Fortunately, he still has his portable spatial storage. He’ll make the Japanese pay for their blood debt! 2.3kReads6.5Score107Shelves
- 23 From Invincible in the Siheyuan to Conquering Hong Kong 从四合院无敌到香江 After transmigrating to the early 1960s, into Love in the Courtyard, he has to outwit and outmaneuver the courtyard’s many schemers while savoring the distinctive spirit of the era. Grandpa Yi, Yi Zhonghai, hides behind a facade of virtue and uses morality to manipulate people. Grandpa Liu, Liu Haizhong, is stupid, vicious, and full of himself. Grandpa Yan, Yan Bugui, is miserly and so stingy he’d pluck a feather from a passing goose. Jia Zhangshi is lazy and greedy, throwing tantrums, causing s 1.7kReads5.1Score—Shelves
- 24 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu's Fantasies 四合院：何雨柱的幻想 A top modern chef transmigrates as He Yuzhu, the biggest fool and simp in the courtyard compound, and sets out on a very different path in life. There is more than one female lead, but he doesn't fall for every woman he meets. He has a golden finger and gives the scoundrels what they deserve. A light, feel-good story with little bitterness. The most important thing is to enjoy a comfortable life, not build a business empire. Some details in the story may not be entirely accurate, so please be un 5.7kReads5.6Score141Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: Returning to 1948 with a Pocket Dimension 四合院：带着空间回到48年 Su Xiaoyang was brought by a System still in its internship phase to the world of "The Courtyard" in early 1948. The sudden transmigration caught him completely off guard. Fortunately, the original story had not yet begun, which meant he had plenty of time and opportunities to change things. As he explored this world more deeply, he was astonished to discover that it was not simply the world of "The Courtyard". It seemed to be a complex setting that blended television dramas and films from vari 7Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 26 A Parallel World: Chasing Romance from Age Eleven 平行时空，十一岁开始竞风流 Yun Fei, a graduate student in economics, transmigrates through time and becomes a young man. Backed by a System, he's both a scholar and a fighter. Fueled by passion, an unconventional mind, a free-spirited nature, and a laid-back character, he breaks free of history's constraints amid turbulent times and sticks to one rule: if you won't listen, then fight. From the revolutionary base areas to the capital, among courtyard houses and the splendor of a glorious era, in a parallel timeline, he liv 1.9kReads8.5Score100Shelves
- 27 Siheyuan: Max-Level Legacy, Conquering the Capital 四合院：满级传承，杀穿四九城 “Transmigrate into a courtyard drama and marry a female spy? I'll inherit the heroic spirit of China and turn around to kill the enemy!” He Shaobai is born into the world of the 1944 Bird-Filled Courtyard. From the start, he is frail and sickly, and He Daqing's family schemes to make him marry a female spy to bring him good fortune. He thinks his life has started in hell, but at eighteen he awakens the [Endless Chinese Heroes Inheritance System]! Bian Que's medical skills save lives, while Yang 2.4kReads5.7Score130Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: Starting a Fight Against the Japanese with My Little Sister 四合院：从带妹妹杀鬼子开始 Chen Feng, a battlefield medic in a secret unit, was reborn and transmigrated back to early 1945, just as his parents were murdered. Taking his younger sister, the only family he had left, he made his way into the capital to continue fighting the war. 58Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: Buying the East Wing from the Start in 1948 四合院：1948开局买下东厢房 After a stroke of good fortune, a modern actuary transmigrates into the courtyard when He Yuzhu is thirteen. Watch him scrape by in that era without moving out of the courtyard, naturally settle into life, and enjoy a comfortable existence in a time of scarcity. This follows the TV adaptation: keeping your head down is the norm, and revenge is never done openly! It's a different kind of courtyard story, so feel free to give it a look. The thrills aren't as intense as you might expect, but this t 21.7kReads5.9Score647Shelves
- 30 Transmigrating to a Beijing Siheyuan in 1937 穿越1937北平四合院 In 2025, a thunderbolt tore through time and space, sending a folk Taoist priest's soul into a dilapidated temple on the outskirts of Beiping in 1937. He became a ten-year-old novice who had been sent into the mountains by his parents to support his younger siblings. He has a rescue System and a ten-cubic-meter storage space at his side, and knows a little about ancient arts. But all he faces is a drafty, leaky temple, a life without enough to eat, and the looming fall of Beiping. 311Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: Who Can Be More Shameless Than Me? 四合院：谁能有我贱 Qin Yuan, a bastard who got struck by lightning for tricking a little girl, woke up to find he had transmigrated into the world of a 1949-era courtyard house. He was also bound to a martial-arts version of the Big Villain System, and got Xiao Li’s Flying Dagger and Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill from the start. Watch as Qin Yuan wreaks havoc in the courtyard-house world and cons countless people. 24.8kReads7.6Score1.1kShelves
- 32 Honghuang: I’m King Father of the East, and I’ll Become the Strongest? 洪荒：我，东王公，要成为最强？ Primordial World Inside the Zixiao Palace “King Father of the East, I called for you. Why didn’t you answer?” Li Chunyang gazes at Hongjun, seated above him, his eyes brimming with tears. “Dao Ancestor, please see the truth. I really am not King Father of the East!” Hongjun nods. “Mm, I know you’re not.” Li Chunyang is overjoyed. “Thank you, Dao Ancestor…” “But I say you are, so you are.” “Huh?!” Oh no, he’s after me! Feeling Dijun and Taiyi’s unfriendly stares from behind him, Li Chunyang thin 716Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 33 Siheyuan: The Beginning of My War of Resistance 四合院：从我的抗战开始 After inexplicably transmigrating to the period following the September 18th Incident, I become a soldier in the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. Since I’m here, I might as well make the best of it. Let’s see how I, Zhao Xiaoguo, can serve my country by fighting the Japanese in this era! Who knew that after arriving in Beiping, I’d discover I was in the world of the Siheyuan novels? Then let this blood-soaked me enter this den of beasts and become a master beast tamer! 127Reads7.2Score102Shelves
- 34 No. 95 Nanluo: A Primordial World Hidden in My Spatial Realm 南锣95号：空间藏洪荒 Was it Zhuang Zhou dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming it was Zhuang Zhou? A modern young man has his soul transported to a courtyard house in Beiping in 1940. That's where the story begins. My new work is out now! Come read it 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! 186Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Siheyuan: I Joined the War Against Japan 四合院之我从抗战开始 Zhang Yunhu awoke in a temporary lodging and stared at the old roof, lost in thought. He remembered his grandparents, who had searched desperately for him at home but never found him; the 350 members of his clan massacred in retaliation by the Japanese; his three older brothers and three sisters-in-law, surrounded and killed by the Japanese; and his parents, second uncle, eight older brothers, and six sisters-in-law, all lost in battle. How many times had he searched for their traces in his drea 7.7kReads7.5Score479Shelves
- 36 The Dreamlike Journey from Courtyard-House Local to Soviet Trader 四合院老司机到苏联倒爷的梦幻史 Starting out as a truck driver at the steel mill in the courtyard compound, he steadily built up his fortune and became the Soviet Union’s biggest black-market trader. He doesn’t fawn over saintly do-gooders or put up with nitpickers. The whole courtyard becomes his harem, and he keeps every oddball firmly in line! From a lowly factory driver to a meteoric rise, he takes power, influence, and wealth into his own hands, climbing higher at every turn with no one able to stop him! Then he gets his 4.3kReads6.7Score265Shelves
- 37 A Pocket Dimension: A Leisurely Escape from Famine in the 1940s 空间：四十年代悠闲逃荒路 Zhao Xiaojuan has just managed to save a little over a million and plans to buy herself a house. Then, out of nowhere, she gains a pocket dimension and is told she's about to transmigrate to Henan in 1942, with only three hours to prepare. She doesn't even get a chance to take it all in and has no choice but to start getting ready. She thought it would just be a story about fleeing famine, but it turns out her older sister has been reborn too. Zhao Xiaojuan narrows her eyes. This world is gettin 5.3kReads8.5Score305Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: I Start Killing Japanese Soldiers While Fleeing for My Life 四合院：从逃难路上杀鬼子开始 Su Yu, a small-town police officer, was reborn in Jin Province in 1940, just as the Japanese launched a sweep through the area. His father was captured by the Japanese and forced into military service, and his mother died of illness. After personally killing his enemies and the Japanese soldiers, Su Yu took his younger brother and sister to the capital to seek refuge with their second uncle. Along the way, he killed Japanese soldiers and traitors, seized supplies, and supported the troops fighti 20.2kReads7.7Score865Shelves
- 39 Siheyuan: Snatching the Japanese Invaders’ Gold from the Start! 四合院：开局截胡小鬼子黄金！ Long Jianguo, a burned-out office worker, has his soul transported to 1945. On the eve of the Japanese surrender, he becomes an orphan in a rear building of a Beijing courtyard compound, starving to death. Frostbitten and famished, with collaborators running rampant, his situation is hellish from the start! Fortunately, the [Witness to History Sign-in System] activates! [Ding! Sign in on the eve of the Japanese surrender to receive a “Divine Space” and “Grandmaster-Level Baji Fist”!] [Ding! Sign 1.6kReads5.9Score108Shelves
- 40 From the Start in 1958: Rising from the Production Team to the Top 开局58年，从生产队一路登顶 Xu Ji, a down-and-out young man from the 21st century, dies mysteriously for reasons that cannot be described. By an unexpected twist of fate, he returns to 1958 and transmigrates into the body of Xu Shikang, his second granduncle, who died young. To change the tragic fate of the Xu family, he resolves to use the experience and knowledge he gained over two lifetimes to reshape the future of the entire family. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: Born into the World in 1937 四合院之胎穿1937 After a car accident, I was reborn in 1937. When I was nine, my parents sent me to live with a maternal uncle in the capital. From then on, I made my home there. I didn’t see my mother again until Beiping was liberated. (I have a small pocket dimension, but I rarely use it. It only comes in handy during difficult times.) 7.7kReads6.7Score169Shelves
- 42 Siheyuan: Starting in 1948 四合院，从1948年开始 After Ji Chang'an died of a terminal illness, having given up on treatment, he transmigrated. What he didn't expect was to arrive in the world of Love in the Courtyard. After leading his family through a famine migration to the capital, where they settled down, Ji Chang'an also learned that he had arrived in the world of Love in the Courtyard. 5.9kReads8.6Score135Shelves
- 43 An Orphan of the Anti-Japanese United Army Moves into the Siheyuan 抗联遗孤入驻四合院 After transmigrating into the orphaned child of a Northeastern Anti-Japanese United Army underground operative, he makes his way alone to Nanluoguxiang in Beiping to seek out relatives and settle down. This is the story of how he does his best to protect the few family members he has left. 8.3kReads8.2Score339Shelves
- 44 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... 19.4kReads6.9Score854Shelves
- 45 Siheyuan: In 1943, the Major's Wife Was My Classmate 四合院：43年，大佐夫人我同学 (Power fantasy, spy drama, fighting the Japanese invaders, courtyard life) Lu Tong transmigrates to Beiping in 1943 and becomes an underground operative. Thanks to a recommendation from Nami Yoshiko, a former classmate from his time studying abroad, he gets a job at an army hospital. With a System at his side, Lu Tong receives all kinds of rewards for completing missions. Ding! Intelligence mission complete. Reward: ten crates of penicillin. Ding! Sniper mission complete. Reward: thirty Mauser 9 14Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 46 I Transmigrated into Siheyuan Too Early 四合院穿越太早 [Siheyuan] [No stealing others’ romantic interests] [No grimdark drama] [No System] [Industrial development] After transmigrating as a beggar, he finds himself in the Siheyuan, a place said to be impossible to overcome. Without a golden finger, what is he supposed to do? He transmigrates into the Siheyuan twenty years early. With a humble background and a young age, all he can do is work hard one step at a time... Welcome to Siheyuan: Twenty Years Early 12.9kReads7.5Score300Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: Getting Rich Starting in 1948 四合院：从1948年开始暴富 (Storage space + angst + wish fulfillment + a sly schemer + shameless stunts + stealing opportunities + Republican-era setting + hoarding supplies + subverting expectations + all-new version) There are no beasts in this courtyard, only workhorses. Jia Youcai, a shameless village loafer, is dropped by the System into the body of another Jia Youcai in Jia Family Village, Changping, in the capital in 1948. Taking advantage of being young but high in the family hierarchy, he mooches food and drink f 5.8kReads8.2Score243Shelves
- 48 Siheyuan: The Young Red Agent of the Underground Transit Station 四合院：地下交通站的红小鬼 At the age of twelve, Lin Mo distinguished himself with repeated outstanding service to the cause as Beiping was peacefully liberated. With his own System space, he also swept up the Nationalist army's assets and planes across the entire capital. After liberation, he became an auxiliary member of the country's intelligence service, providing vital intelligence time and again in operations to root out enemy spies. Later, he took the post of head of security at a steel mill, tracking down enemy ag 1.2kReads5.7Score—Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: I Became a Russian 四合院之我成了二毛子 [Siheyuan]+ [Pocket Dimension]+ [Not a Power Fantasy]+ [Everyday Life]+ [No Harem] Chen Daniu, a modern-day construction foreman, is pierced through the body by a steel rebar and reborn in Northeast China in 1941. He discovers that he is a mixed-race “half-Russian,” struggling to survive in the Northeast. In 1945, his mother leaves for the Bear Country. In 1946, he flees with his father to the capital. Only after settling down there does he realize he is living in the television drama Love in th 14.2kReads7.2Score572Shelves
- 50 I Stole Xiaoe Away in the Siheyuan, and Now I'm Surrounded by Rich Young Ladies 四合院截胡晓娥我身边全是大小姐 [System + Storage Space + Supplies + Multiple Heroines + Let’s All Be Animals] Lin Weidong, a young man from a later era, transmigrates to 1956. For him, getting a second life is a pretty good deal, and he eagerly settles into the times. A year later, his father receives some kind of message and hurriedly takes Lin Weidong’s younger brother and sister to the south, leaving him with only a letter and 200 yuan. Knowing where the era is headed, Lin Weidong studies for a technical school diploma. In 30.8kReads6.3Score2.3kShelves
