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- 101 Siheyuan: Transferred to Become a Section Chief 四合院，转业就是科长 Courtyard compound + spatial dimension + farming + mild hostility Li Weiguo transmigrated into the body of another man with the same name. When he returned to his father's house, he discovered that he was in the world of Love in the Courtyard. See how Li Weiguo deals with the courtyard's miscreants. They aren't mindless, and Li Weiguo won't go after them for no reason either. 2.8kReads6.8Score13814d adds
- 102 Siheyuan: I'm the He Family's Second Young Master, Rising Through the Ranks 四合院：我，何家二少，一路进部 [Rebuild Silly Zhu] [Beat the courtyard beasts] [Restore the He family] He transmigrates to the 1960s as He Yuzhu’s younger brother and He Yushui’s twin brother, and awakens a sign-in System. His first move is to expose Yi Zhonghai’s hypocrisy, help Silly Zhu see him for who he really is, and then send him to the police station for good measure. He doesn’t just want to change the He family’s fate. He also wants to go to university! He’s going to make a name for himself in this world, fair and sq 2.7kReads7.1Score11314d adds
- 103 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Tells Me Not to Spoil Her Alone 四合院：秦淮茹劝我别独宠她一人 Low on hostility! Low on hostility! Low on hostility! Slow pace! Slow pace! Slow pace! Important things must be said three times!!! Chen Hao had barely woken up when the Jia family set their sights on his house. He couldn’t let that stand, so he married Qin Huairu before Jia Dongxu could. When he discovered that the heroine had good fortune and could help the System, he decided to take them all for himself. A week into their marriage, Qin Huairu took the initiative and urged Chen Hao to consider 25.9kReads7.1Score2.1k14d adds
- 104 Transmigrating into Siheyuan: An Upright Life That Won’t Take the Blame 穿越四合院，正直人生不背锅 The protagonist transmigrates into the courtyard and becomes Lin Zhou, a man with the same name. His parents died when he was young, and he raised his younger sister on his own. He has a steady job at a steel mill. He absolutely refuses to be a pushover!!! He will never be a pushover!!! 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Siheyuan: Full of Love 四合院：情满 Zhang Dazhuang, a modern man, transmigrates to the 1960s, right into a Beijing courtyard full of scoundrels! And he's just a bit player? Well! Forget it. If you weren't born to be the protagonist, don't act like one. Since you're here, just settle in and get by. But... can things be changed? Probably... right? 4.2kReads6.5Score11414d adds
- 106 In the Siheyuan, My Son Is Yi Zhonghai, and That's a Fact! 四合院，我儿子是易中海，保真！ [Siheyuan] [Cultivation] [Everyday life] [Neighborly conflicts] [The 749 Bureau makes occasional appearances] A parallel world. Yi Qiankun, a modern man, transmigrated to the year 1800 and obtained a Cultivation System. He secluded himself in the mountains and cultivated for a hundred years, finally reaching the Nascent Soul stage. When his cultivation hit a bottleneck, Yi Qiankun chose to seal his powers and go down the mountain to marry and have children. But an accident while rescuing someone 2kReads5.7Score10914d adds
- 107 Siheyuan: Jia Zhangshi Runs Wild and Steals Young Huairu 四合院：暴贾张氏，截胡少女淮茹 [Courtyard Siheyuan + Feel-Good Story + Snatching Someone Else's Catch + The Myriad Worlds + Face-Slapping] Lin Dong transmigrates into a courtyard siheyuan and binds himself to a System. He decides to start by snatching Qin Huaier away while she's still a young woman! He takes on Yi Zhonghai, slaps Jia Zhangshi, and beats Jia Dongxu! In this courtyard, I'm king! 3.4kReads—Score13814d adds
- 108 Siheyuan: Even Lu Renjia Gets His Springtime 四合院之陆人甲也有春天 The protagonist transmigrates into the world of the courtyard, but the System malfunctions. He was supposed to transmigrate as Xu Damao, but instead transmigrates into Lu Renjia. The System still handles things as if he had transmigrated as Xu Damao. 119Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 Transmigrating to the Siheyuan: Becoming Yi Zhonghai's Own Son 穿越四合院：成为易中海的亲儿子 The story takes place in 2023, when a modern young man named Yi Weiguo transmigrates back to Beijing in the 1960s after an accident. Even more astonishingly, he discovers that he has become Yi Zhonghai’s son in the courtyard: Yi Weiguo. Faced with an era of scarcity, complicated social ties, and a father utterly unlike the one in his memories, Yi Weiguo must quickly adapt to his new identity and survive in the little society of the courtyard. Using his modern knowledge and foresight, he helps h 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Siheyuan: Bang Geng Is Just Like Me, So Why Did I Get Stuck Paying a Hundred? 四合院：棒梗类我，随一百咱了？ [Siheyuan + diligence rewarded by Heaven + outsmarting the courtyard’s troublemakers + scheming] Jia Dongxu: “Lin Jianhua, when Qin Huairu and I got married, you gave us just a dime. When my son was born, you gave us a hundred yuan. What’s that supposed to mean!?” Lin Jianhua: “Brother Dongxu, don’t get the wrong idea. Huairu and I grew up together, after all. And Banggen looks so much like me. What’s wrong with giving him a hundred yuan?” Qin Huairu: “Jianhua, don’t talk nonsense. Banggen only 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 Siheyuan: You Rejected My Confession, So I Left. Why Are You Crying? 四合院：表白你不接受我走你哭啥 [System + period setting + farming + everyday life + sweet romance] This book is also known as Love in the Courtyard: Refusing to Be a Doormat, Qin Huairu Panics, Reborn Without Becoming Someone's Fall Guy, Qin Huairu Is Panicking, and Reborn: Returning to the Sixties to Become a Tycoon. After transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, Han Jianguo becomes an ordinary resident. That year, Qin Huairu is still unmarried. Having been poisoned by novels, Han Jianguo promptly decides to g 120Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 112 Transmigrating to the Red-Hot Era 穿越火红年代 He enlists to defend his country, then after leaving the military is assigned a job at a steel mill and moves into a courtyard house. He works and lives alongside his big brother, hoping to repay the man who raised him for as long as he lives. This is the story of an ordinary person's everyday life. 5kReads6.2Score17814d adds
- 113 Siheyuan: Reborn as He Yuzhu, Living the Good Life 四合院：重生何雨柱，潇洒小生活 He clutched a faded animal-hide map in his hand. Its edges had curled and cracked with age, and the route lines drawn in cinnabar crisscrossed before ending at a hidden spot beneath this cliff. Tucked close against his chest beneath his undershirt was also a dull, lusterless black jade token, the one his father had pressed into his hand on his deathbed. 201Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 114 Siheyuan: It All Begins with Reporting to the Steel Mill 四合院：从轧钢厂报道开始 Yi Baoping transmigrates and finds himself a middle school student. Knowing how tough life is in this era, he works hard for the sake of his future, eventually getting into and graduating from a technical secondary school. Who would have thought that, upon arriving at the steel mill where he's assigned, he'd run into the “famous” First Master, Yi Zhonghai? And it turns out Yi Zhonghai is his own uncle. “Did I transmigrate into the world of the courtyard houses?” “And become the First Master's ne 102Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 115 Transmigrating as He Daqing in the Siheyuan, Pretending to Be Silly Zhu’s Uncle 四合院：穿越何大清，冒充傻柱叔 A post-2000s kid transmigrates into He Daqing and, on his very first day, overhears the White Widow and her son plotting together. [Sign-in successful. Reward: Max-Level Smack] Using the smack, he beats the White Widow and her two sons. He wants to return to Courtyard No. 95, but worries about clashing with Silly Zhu. [Sign-in successful. Reward: Marrow-Cleansing Elixir] After taking the elixir, his body regains the vigor and vitality he had twenty years ago. Seeing how young he looks, he adopts 321Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 116 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—14d adds
- 117 Siheyuan: She Broke Off Our Engagement from the Start, So I Married Her Sister Instead 四合院：开局退婚？我反手娶她妹 [System + space + mountain hunting] Cao Liang transmigrates into the body of Qin Huairu's lovesick fiancé, and from the start he is faced with a broken engagement. Just then, her younger sister steps forward without hesitation and says she is willing to marry Cao Liang. Cao Liang smiles and makes up his mind in an instant: he turns around and marries her younger sister instead. See how Cao Liang leads his family to a better life… Years later, Qin Huairu regrets it bitterly! 13.4kReads6.5Score72714d adds
- 118 Siheyuan: From Trouble-Maker and Gossip-Lover to Director Lin 四合院：从祸害拱火吃瓜成林主任 The rating just came in, so don't worry, it'll rise [Siheyuan] [Comedy] [System] [One Female Lead] [Takes Down the Whole Courtyard] Lin Xiao transmigrates and binds himself to the [Gossip Exchange System]. The villagers see him as a menace. They pool their money to send the jinx away, selling their pots and pans to get him a job at a steel mill in the capital. He couldn't be happier: what could be better than heading to the city to lie flat and enjoy the gossip? The happier the villagers are to 15.5kReads6.2Score60814d adds
- 119 Reborn as a Hoodlum: From the Start, I Slashed Yi Zhonghai to Death 古惑仔重生，开局一刀砍死易中海 A gangster from Hong Kong transmigrates into the world of the siheyuan courtyard. From the start, he is beaten, forced to carry bricks, and has his house taken over. He immediately fights back, chopping the sanctimonious hypocrite Yi Zhonghai to death with one slash. This novel is full of aggression, but also has a streak of passion. Within 24 hours of Lin Dong's transmigration, he makes his first kill: Yi Zhonghai, the leader of the beasts. He turns the tables and subdues every beast in the cou 8.2kReads5.5Score11514d adds
- 120 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Is Mine from the Start 四合院：开局就送秦淮茹 Lin Junsheng transmigrates to 1951, into the world of Love in the Courtyard. The bad news is that someone has stabbed him nearly to death. The good news is that he gets a wife. He realizes he was brought here because of a mix-up and doesn't mind. He just wants to live a peaceful life with his wife, but his abilities won't let him. 8.6kReads6.0Score38014d adds
- 121 Silly Zhu Starts a Business Abroad 出国创业的傻柱 Watching Siheyuan made me want to write my own story. I've never written anything before, so I'm giving it a try. I also want to write about how someone with modern ideas would live and make choices after transmigrating to the 1950s or 1960s. 665Reads8.2Score10714d adds
- 122 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 4.4kReads6.7Score26614d adds
- 123 Siheyuan: Jia Dongxu's Wedding, and I'm the Groom? 四合院:贾东旭大婚，我做新郎？ [Siheyuan courtyard + 1960s + multiple women + System + pocket dimension] Zhao Yan, a university student from the twenty-first century, transmigrates by accident. Still reeling from the shock, he discovers that he's landed in the infamous Beastly Siheyuan! He arrives on the very day of Jia Dongxu's wedding. But on their wedding night, the drunk Jia Dongxu has no idea that his bride will wander into the wrong room in the middle of the night... 10.3kReads6.5Score49914d adds
- 124 I Gave the Courtyard's Troublemakers a System of Their Own 四合院，我给众禽订制系统 (No angst + comedy + everyday life + pocket space + System + strengthening the nation) Chen Ping'an obtains the “Positive Energy Guidance System,” which lets him create custom sub-systems and bind them to the residents of the courtyard. Granny Jia becomes the courtyard's resident sweeper, Yan Bugui turns into a literacy expert, and Liu Haizhong becomes the patrol captain... Guided by their System missions, everyone transforms from schemers, slackers, and power-hungry officials into a new force f 4.2kReads8.0Score28314d adds
- 125 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu, Are You Sure You're Their Biological Son? 四合院：傻柱你确定你是亲生的吗 After Chen Yang graduated from college, his father, Chen Chen, took him on a road trip to celebrate. They accidentally collided with a heavy truck and both transmigrated to 1935, the year He Yuzhu was born. After transmigrating, the father, Chen Ming, became the young He Daqing. He knew only the history of the Republic of China and nothing about the plot of Love in the Courtyard. His son, Chen Yang, became a baby and He Yuzhu's twin brother, with full knowledge of the characters' tangled relatio 40Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 126 Siheyuan: I'm Just Giving Sister Qin Another Biology Lesson 四合院：我只是再给秦姐上生物课 My new story is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 7.9kReads6.7Score37414d adds
- 127 Siheyuan: Uncle Mao Starts Cultivating 四合院：我茂爷开始修仙了 [Cultivation for All | Set Three Transmigrators Straight | Bully the Beasts | A Changing World Order | Playing the Neighbor] Chen Dawei, with a Level One sign-in System Wang Jinlin, with a Level Two emotion-point collection System Zhang Xiaohei, with a Level Three slaughter-and-beast-bullying System Even the beasts have started cultivating. Can the transmigrators still bully them? 3kReads—Score10914d adds
- 128 Reborn in 1958: With a Pocket Dimension, I’m Claimed by a Rich Heiress 重生五八：手握空间，被千金赖上 Chen An, a top hunter of the 21st century, was reborn in the Greater Khingan Mountains in 1958, carrying a map passed down through his family. The Great Famine was looming, supplies were extremely scarce, and even wild vegetable dumplings were a luxury. Fortunately, his portable space held spiritual spring water and fertile land, and could store anything! Wild boars roamed in herds, golden pheasants filled the sky, and ginseng could be dug up as easily as radishes! Chen An had planned to keep to 1.6kReads5.9Score10314d adds
- 129 Siheyuan: The Eastern Granary, Starting from Being Reborn 四合院：东大粮仓，从重生开始 Silly Zhu was led badly astray. In his fifties, he finally saw the truth, but by then he was bound in chains and had lost the will to fight. All he could do was drift through life in a daze, pretending to be deaf and dumb until the end. He never expected to return to the 1960s after dying, where he gained a miraculous pocket dimension and began his second life. 90Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Siheyuan: Earn Merit, Rise Through the Ranks, and Let Others Do Your Dirty Work 四合院：立功升官，擅长借刀杀人 Turning enemies against each other + planning before acting + a short temper + repeatedly earning extraordinary merit + enjoying life + courtyard life From the start, Silly Zhu wants to give half of the big fish from Zhao Hao’s home to Qin Huairu, then divide the rest among everyone in the courtyard. He cleverly resolves the problem. He has to get back at Silly Zhu, making sure he never finds a wife for the rest of his life. He also makes iron underwear for Xu Damao and teaches him martial arts, 594Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Reborn to Settle Scores and Repay Kindness 四合院：傻柱重生快意恩仇 On New Year's Eve, Silly Zhu is driven out of the courtyard compound by Banggeng. On a snowy night, wild dogs bite him to death beneath a bridge. His resentment is so great that it alerts the King of Hell, who gives him a chance to be reborn and start over. With no System and no space, will Silly Zhu end up following the same old path...? 17.3kReads7.4Score86414d adds
- 132 The Four Courtyards: Cao Tan's Life Raising Kids 四个院：曹叹的带娃人生 A story about the protagonist transmigrating into a courtyard. The focus is on enjoying life and raising kids, with no hostility... The focus is on doing whatever seems fun... The focus is on enjoying life as a parent... 617Reads—Score11914d adds
- 133 Siheyuan: My Maternal Uncle Is the First Master 四合院：吾家舅父是壹大爷 Li Ping’an felt a sudden daze. When he opened his eyes again, he realized he had somehow traveled back to the last century. After finally completing his technical secondary school studies, he was waiting to be assigned a job when he discovered that he had arrived in the world of Love in the Courtyard. Even more surprising, the home he was assigned was in the courtyard’s central section, and Yi Zhonghai, the courtyard’s respected elder, turned out to be his maternal uncle, whom he hadn’t seen in 820Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Knocked Over Yi Zhonghai and Deaf Granny 四合院：开局打翻易中海聋老太 Pure feel-good power fantasy, pure feel-good power fantasy, pure feel-good power fantasy No swallowing insults, no fawning over anyone, entirely handmade, with no AI involved. A hotel chef from the 21st century transmigrates into Li Xiangdong, a cook in the canteen of Courtyard No. 95 in 1959. When the canteen supervisor position is up for grabs, Silly Zhu loses the competition and grows resentful, then shows up at Li Xiangdong's door to smash the place up. Yi Zhonghai rushes over with Deaf Gra 29.1kReads8.1Score1.7k14d adds
- 135 Siheyuan: I'm Yi Zhonghai, and I Don't Need You to Support Me in My Old Age 四合院：我易中海，不用你们养老 The Siheyuan stays the same, but its transmigrators come and go. Yi Zhonghai, a modern man born in the 1980s, went through school, graduated, and started a business just as planned. After finally making his venture a success, he was about to enjoy the fruits of his labor. Then he woke up one morning in the 1950s, only to discover he was still the same moral paragon. As a modern man, why should I need someone to support me in my old age? I, Yi Zhonghai, don’t need you to take care of me. 7.4kReads6.6Score20814d adds
- 136 I Became a Member of the Siheyuan 我成为四合院的一员 Wang Lie ran a modest-sized company in Feng City, earning around ten million yuan a year. By chance, he acquired a ring that was neither gold nor jade, and from then on his fate changed. Read the main story for details. 1.7kReads6.3Score10014d adds
- 137 Siheyuan: I Share No Heavens with Widows 四合院之我与寡妇不共戴天 Silly Zhu transmigrates to the night He Daqing ran away in 1951. When Yi Zhonghai comes to lecture him, he declares, “Widows and I are sworn enemies,” and flatly rejects the retirement-support gang. He obtains the Beast-Filled Courtyard System, gaining all the skills of the courtyard’s beasts, and sets about tormenting them relentlessly. No saintly do-gooding, no stirring up trouble. If he can settle things with his fists, he won’t waste words. The whole point is to make life miserable for those 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 The Official God: A Career in Politics That Begins in a Siheyuan 官神：从四合院开始的仕途人生 [Siheyuan] + [Blood Romance] + [In the Name of the People] + [Officialdom] + [Film and TV Worlds] Zhang Xiangyang was even-tempered and had a happy family, but after offending powerful men, he lost his wife and children and saw his family destroyed. Unable to let go of his hatred, he became a wolf, killed his enemy and the man's son with his own hands, and went on the run. Unexpectedly, he fled straight to 1965, landing in the infamous Birds-Fill-the-Siheyuan Courtyard. Faced with this notoriou 4.2kReads7.0Score11714d adds
- 139 Siheyuan: Choosing the Harshest Path from the Start, I Send Every Beast Packing 四合院：开局选最狠，禽兽全送走 [Male-oriented + courtyard + tycoon + invincible + close sibling bond + wish fulfillment + decisive and ruthless + System + period setting + golden finger] He transmigrates into a 1960s courtyard. From the start, both parents are dead, his little sister is sick and disabled, and the courtyard is crawling with beasts. What could possibly go wrong? [Ding! Detected that Silly Zhu is plotting against your little sister. Please choose!] [One: Swallow your anger and earn the title “Ninja Turtle”!] [Tw 1.7kReads—Score10014d adds
- 140 Life Begins in Siheyuan 从四合院出发的生活 A young man arrives in the early 1950s and settles into life running his own little courtyard. He has no desire to toil like an ox or a horse; a regular job is just a way to find some stability in this era. Shortages? That's someone else's problem! 854Reads—Score10314d adds
- 141 Siheyuan: Eliminate the Whole Courtyard from the Start 四合院：开局全院消消乐 In 1960, I transmigrate into Liu Guangfu, a 15-year-old who's being beaten, while five-year-old Bang Geng watches from outside, grinning like an idiot... [The story starts with me getting beaten. Where's the way out?] [If I can't have any peace, then nobody gets to have any.] [If you all want to laugh at me, then let's all become a joke!] [So...] [I'm getting beaten? I'll beat Bang Geng.] [I'm getting scolded? I'll beat Bang Geng.] [I'm in a bad mood? I'll beat Bang Geng again.] In short, everyo 22Reads—Score114d adds
- 142 Siheyuan: Before I Transmigrated, I Was a Corporate Workhorse 四合院：我穿越前是牛马 [Historical Era Novel + One Female Lead + Courtyard House + System] Chen Mo transmigrated to 1959, brought there by a System that had gone rogue. Faced with the assorted beasts of Love in the Courtyard, he set out to make his own plans: absolutely no working, absolutely no putting up with bullies, and always getting even in the real world. No getting dragged into endless back-and-forth... He couldn't even get his own life in order, but he was determined to put everyone in the courtyard in their 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Siheyuan: I Help Jia Dongxu Change His Fate 四合院，我带贾东旭改变命运 [Courtyard-house setting] + [Not brainless] + [Everyday life] + [Low on hostility] + [Period setting] + [Lighthearted] + [Technology] Reborn in the womb, he becomes a high school student living in the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. When his father dies, he is forced to become the family's main support. Because of his father's scheming, and so he can live a better life, he becomes the courtyard's First Master Yi's godson. This novel recreates the courtyard house in its most authentic form. Th 778Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 144 Siheyuan: If You Don't Like It, Fight Me 四合院，不服就干 What would it be like if a street punk transmigrated into the body of a top student? I won’t bother anyone, so don’t bother me either. I just want to live a quiet, peaceful life with my younger siblings! 3.8kReads5.5Score21314d adds
- 145 Siheyuan: From the Start in 1951, I Steal Qin Huairu Away 四合院：51开局，截胡秦淮茹 Chen Ping’an was carried into the world of Love in the Courtyard, but the System sealed his memories of his past life. Only after his memories returned did he finally learn that he was a transmigrator, and that he had transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard. From the start, a matchmaker came calling, and the prospective bride turned out to be the white lotus Qin Huairu? A divine choice was triggered. What would he choose? Well, everyone says a fresh white lotus is delicious, so of 14kReads6.7Score69714d adds
- 146 Siheyuan: The Peerless Chef He Yuzhu 四合院：绝代厨神何雨柱 “He Yuzhu, in your last life, Yi Zhonghai kept you like a dog, the Jia family bled you dry, and you even drove He Yushui into lifelong depression...” The instant the System's mechanical voice exploded in his mind, the fifteen-year-old clenched his fist, his nails piercing his palm. [Novice mission activated: Survival Mode: Battle for Survival in the Siheyuan] [Proficiency System bound: Skill Points = Effort × Emotion × Revenge] 4.3kReads6.1Score19414d adds
- 147 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! 916Reads6.5Score10314d adds
- 148 Siheyuan: The Beasts Died Too Soon 四合院：禽兽死早了 This is a completely different kind of Four-House-Courtyard novel from the ones you’ve read before. The male lead, Wang Hua, inherits the legacy of the Great World of the God of Cookery. With no memories of the courtyard and as an outsider, he faces assassination attempts and provocations from Deaf Granny, Yi Zhonghai, and the others. Unable to take it any longer, he strikes back against these scoundrels. There’s no drawn-out back-and-forth or dragging things out. The story doesn’t stop until De 12.4kReads5.9Score40114d adds
- 149 Siheyuan: I Took Xu Damao’s Side at the Chicken-Theft Scene 四合院：偷鸡现场站队许大茂 In 1965, Yan Jiecheng suddenly gains a new set of memories and sees the courtyard where his family lives in a whole new light. Could Silly Zhu, whom he’s always found annoying, really be the main character? That’s ridiculous! He’s not going to cozy up to the protagonist. When he catches someone stealing a chicken, he’ll help Brother Damau, then kick Silly Zhu into the ditch. Even the First Master won’t be able to stop him! And his own father: apparently people in the future think he’s a real pie 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Going with the Flow in a Fiery Era 火红年代之随波逐流 Zhong Shan transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Let’s see how Zhong Shan gallops through this era. Zhong Shan is a fine young man, handsome and wealthy. Quite something, quite something, Zhong Shan is a fine young man! (Sorry, wrong song.) No angst, mostly everyday life. An outsider in the retirement community. 18kReads7.9Score66414d adds
