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- 151 Siheyuan: I'm Not the He Family's Nanny 四合院我不是何家保姆 The male lead, Zhong Hua, is a renowned super mercenary king from the future. He also possesses a family-inherited mastery of traditional Chinese medicine and extraordinary surgical skills. During a battle, he is betrayed by the country that hired him and transmigrates to the world of the courtyard in 1951. In both his past and present lives, his only ideal is to live in a country governed by law, where everyone is treated fairly and equally. This is his greatest conviction, and his only one. Af 4.5kReads7.1Score13314d adds
- 152 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Marry Jingru and Leave the Widow Stunned 四合院：开局娶京茹，寡妇懵了 The Four Courtyard story begins again! [System] + [Period] + [Reforming the courtyard’s ways] + [Everyday family life] Transmigrated as Silly Zhu in 1965, he faces the retirement brigade’s relentless harassment and the pitiful act put on by the widowed Qin. Now that the “new He Yuzhu” knows his original self’s fate, will he go with the flow and repeat the same mistakes, or use the System to forge a whole new life in this passionate era? Does he want a life with a wife and children gathered aroun 24.6kReads7.4Score1.4k14d adds
- 153 Love in the Courtyard: Silly Zhu's Redemption 情满四合院傻柱的救赎 [No System] [No pocket dimension] [No golden finger] [Grounded in reality] If you’re looking for a mindless power fantasy that ignores its historical setting, this isn’t for you. A modern young man named He Yuzhu unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Since he has the same name as the protagonist and is a devoted viewer of the show, many of its plotlines have always bothered him. Taking advantage of his transmigration, he uses the limited resources available to chang 1.3kReads—Score10114d adds
- 154 Siheyuan: From the Start, I'm Invisible, Hiding Warmth in an Ordinary Life 四合院：透明人开局，平凡藏温情 [Multiple heroines | Low-conflict slice of life | Combines the worlds of several period dramas] Currently covering A Little Woman Under Zhengyang Gate, People Are Iron, Rice Is Steel, Under Zhengyang Gate, New World, and The Glorious Era After transmigrating to the 1960s, Lin Yu moves into a siheyuan. The courtyard is full of trouble every day. The neighbors scheme and bicker, and everyone quarrels until they're red in the face over the tiniest benefits. Lin Yu wants no part of these disputes 9.4kReads—Score87314d adds
- 155 Siheyuan: A Song of Loyalty to the Nation Shook the Entire Factory 四合院：一首精忠报国震撼全厂 No brutality, and no excessive bloodlust. His relationship with Granny Deaf starts out good and turns bad, while his relationship with Silly Zhu goes from bad to good. The villains will all be punished eventually, but certainly not right at the start. 3kReads8.3Score11214d adds
- 156 Siheyuan: Nobody Touch My Wife 四合院之谁也别动我的老婆 3.8kReads8.4Score14814d adds
- 157 Siheyuan: I'm Director Wang's Direct Superior 四合院：我是王主任的顶头上司 (Two heroines, no romantic indecision, ensemble cast. Readers who might object, proceed with caution.) Liu Aiguo began making plans before Liberation. When he grew up, he moved into a courtyard with his parents. As the neighborhood committee secretary, he doesn't need to hit anyone. He can settle everything by the rules. He can keep the neighborhood office in line above him and sweep every scoundrel in the courtyard aside below. His game is all about open strategy and sly tricks! Original charac 10kReads6.3Score25714d adds
- 158 Since I'm Here, I Might as Well Live It Up in the Sixties 来到来了，60年代也要浪一浪 Song Yuwen transmigrated to 1959 and became Song Dabao, who had fallen into the water. He now had a big family, and every one of them was talented. Thanks to them, he avoided many detours in life. To make money, he started out fishing, then sold popsicles. After landing a job as a purchasing agent, he spent his days thinking about how to profit from black-market trading. By a stroke of luck, he even became a train security officer. And so Song Dabao began shuttling between the Northeast, Beijing 12.3kReads7.5Score86914d adds
- 159 Living in Siheyuan, I Married Yu Li 人在四合院，娶了于莉 Li Xiangqian transmigrates into the body of an ordinary resident in Love in the Courtyard. When he goes on a blind date with Qin Huairu, he sees what she is really like and decisively calls off the marriage. As a result, he is past thirty and still has no wife, while the Jia family slanders him and the neighbors ostracize him... Things are different now. He has bound himself to a sign-in System, so he no longer has to suffer poverty and hardship. His life couldn't be more comfortable! Most impor 2.6kReads7.9Score10514d adds
- 160 The Siheyuan Cultivation Loser's Comeback 四合院修仙废材的逆袭 [Siheyuan + System + Cultivation + Daily Life + …] Chen Shuai, who has lived two lives, transmigrates to the world of the Siheyuan. Yi Zhonghai, Silly Zhu, Jia Zhangshi… They’re nothing but dust. Just don’t mess with me, or else… What? There’s no spiritual energy in this world, so I can’t cultivate? No problem. I have secret body-tempering techniques, and spirit stones awarded by the System! What? This era is unusual, and making money is difficult? No problem. With my abilities, earning over ten 3.4kReads6.6Score13714d adds
- 161 Siheyuan: Where There Are People, There's a World of Its Own 四合院，有人就有江湖 Reborn in a courtyard, I open my eyes and see nothing but talented people. Whoa! Isn’t that Yi Zhonghai? Zheng Chaoyang? Good grief, this is a world where film and TV dramas overlap! There’s going to be plenty to do! The darkness before dawn is often the hardest to endure. This is a story about transmigrators gathering kindling and starting a fire. Multiple heroines, no saintly do-gooder, justified bullying of the courtyard’s beasts, lighthearted comedy, and a sly, petty-minded protagonist. 4kReads6.4Score13314d adds
- 162 Siheyuan: The Unbridled Cao Section Chief 四合院之肆意妄为曹科长 [Multiple heroines, don’t read if that’s not your thing] [System] [Slice of Life] [Siheyuan] [The Story of Zhengyang Gate] [Man Is Iron] Cao Dalong inexplicably transmigrates to the 1960s. After three years of military service, he is demobilized and assigned to the security division by his adoptive father, Zhao Dezhu. He earns rewards by putting the courtyard birds in their place and quickly builds a fortune by taking control of the black market. A story about winning over beautiful women along 10.7kReads6.6Score52714d adds
- 163 Reborn in the Countryside: Protecting My Stunning Older Sister 重生下乡，守护绝美姐姐， Multiple heroines. Shen Yanci takes life and death in stride: if you won't back down, neither will he! If he likes you, he takes you in; if you rub him the wrong way, he wipes you out! The campus belle who sits beside him, the gorgeous woman living alone in the capital, the beautiful married woman he meets on a train: he follows his heart with every one of them! A billionaire CEO betrayed by his wife and friends in his previous life and devastated by the loss of his beloved older sister is rebor 5.2kReads6.7Score62314d adds
- 164 Siheyuan: Reborn, I Won't Be Anyone's Pack Mule 四合院：重生不当牛马 Top-tier overworked office drone Li Fei dies suddenly from working overtime, then transmigrates into the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. Taking He Yuzhu's place, he gets a second chance at life. Before the reforms and opening-up, he works diligently at the steel mill and spends his spare time messing with the vermin in the courtyard. After the reforms begin, he rides the winds of change to success. 3kReads8.0Score10014d adds
- 165 Siheyuan: Starting at the Cultural Center 四合院：从文化站开始 One female lead + cozy daily life + positive energy + no dark and violent content. "A speck of dust from the times, when it falls on an ordinary person, is like a mountain." Li Yanxun: "My grandfather didn't lose to the flames of war. My father didn't lose to poverty and hunger. I can't lose to my own ordinariness in this great and peaceful era!" 1.9kReads6.8Score—14d adds
- 166 Siheyuan: The Simpleton 四合院，傻小子 A special forces soldier is reborn in a courtyard house in Beijing and obtains a System. Since the previous occupant was an idiot, I’ll keep acting like one. Idiots are safe, and major events won’t affect me. Fools are blessed with good fortune. 6.5kReads8.4Score21814d adds
- 167 With a Trillion Likes at My Command, I Guard the Dead 坐拥万亿音浪，我死亡守护 [Multiple heroines, urban, System, comeback] The frustrating part lasts only the first three chapters. After that, it's one satisfying face-slapping triumph after another, with every insult returned in kind. After graduating, Hao Qiang and his girlfriend Long Yan join the same company but work in different departments. In less than three months, Long Yan hooks up with the boss's son. After leaving Long Yan, Hao Qiang gets drunk to drown his sorrows, then watches livestreams to take his mind —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Cut Off Yi Zhonghai’s Hand 四合院：开局砍断易中海的手 Hong An transmigrates to 1961, wounded in battle and returning home. One of his rooms has been seized by Jia Zhangshi, and the other has been turned into a private toilet for the Deaf Old Madam. His parents’ memorial tablets have been thrown away. With Hong An back, the beasts in the courtyard are in for trouble. 5.5kReads8.4Score16514d adds
- 169 I Became He Yushui's Golden Finger in the Siheyuan 4合院我成了何雨水的金手指 A soul from the future comes to share the body of a pitiful He Yushui. What sparks will fly in the courtyard? There are no fights or killings here, just the everyday ups and downs of family life! 1.2kReads6.6Score10014d adds
- 170 A Story Inspired by In the Name of the People: The Zhao Family's Eldest Young Master 名义同人，赵家大公子 This story is entirely fictional. The protagonist, Zhao Wenjie, transmigrates into The Name of the People as Zhao Dehan's son. He is in a vegetative state and has spent five years in a hospital bed. Five years later, he wakes up to find that he has won by doing nothing. His company has grown into a conglomerate, and his assets have multiplied several times over. Five years have passed. He now has his own conglomerate, his own team, and his own connections in the capital. He has even begun to tou 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Siheyuan: Head of the Security Department, with Uncle Li Huaide 四合院：保卫科科长，舅舅李怀德 Lin Zhengyang is fishing when he accidentally swings his line into a high-voltage wire. His vision goes black, and he’s reduced to ashes. When he wakes up, he discovers that he has transmigrated into Love in the Courtyard. Li Huaide is his uncle, and Director Wang from the neighborhood committee is his godmother. What’s more, he’s the chief of the security department. How will the courtyard’s troublemakers deal with him now...? 35.9kReads8.3Score1.8k14d adds
- 172 Siheyuan: Lord Wei 四合院之韦爵爷 Lord Wei happened upon a jade pendant, and from then on became bound up with transmigration. Eventually, he arrived in the Beijing courtyard world of 1963. He could have started a life of taking it easy, but he was assigned by his superiors to work part-time at the steel mill, where he fell out with Director Yang and the infamous courtyard troublemakers, including Deaf Granny and several of the old men. The male lead showed no mercy and wasted no time. After casually dealing with Director Yang a 4.1kReads8.8Score19814d adds
- 173 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu, Soft and Sweet, Is Brought Home 四合院:软软乎乎秦淮茹抱回家 Pure Love, Everyday Life, No Hostility, No Spatial System Marry a lovely wife, live a comfortable life, look good when you go out, have fun when you come home. Make money with ease, enjoy a lifetime of happiness, treat our Qin Huairu well, and build a happy family. Live happily ever after! Starting from nothing? No problem, I know how to make money! I draw posters and comics, earn extra cash, save grain, and stock up on supplies. I have no grand ambitions. An ordinary, peaceful life is what mat 72.9kReads8.8Score4.7k14d adds
- 174 Starting Out in the Siheyuan: Taking Silly Zhu as My Son 四合院开局收傻柱当儿子 Older novel: My Journey Across the Myriad Worlds Begins in the Siheyuan Luo Cheng transmigrates into the Siheyuan world and gets a Godfather System. Every time he takes a character from the story as his godson or goddaughter, he gets a deluxe reward package. Granny Deaf and Yi Zhonghai scheme to drive He Daqing out of the Siheyuan, planning to win He Yuzhu's gratitude at the lowest possible cost when he's desperate. But Luo Cheng gets there first. “Sha Zhu, be my son.” Liu Haizhong beats his two 52.8kReads7.9Score3.4k14d adds
- 175 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Ruined the White Lotus's Face 四合院：开局毁了白莲花脸 [Mindless wish-fulfillment + intense hostility + tormenting the vermin + scheming + everyone is evil + not one gets away] In 1961, Sun Dazhuang transmigrates into a new resident of a Beijing courtyard, a man beaten to death by the neighborhood’s old-age-care clique. He hits back by beating Silly Zhu into having no heirs and disfiguring Qin’s face, and that’s just the beginning! Watch him take revenge to the extreme, strip the vermin of what they care about most, and then slaughter them! 3.9kReads5.8Score12014d adds
- 176 Siheyuan: A New Dad in the 1960s 四合院：人在60年代，刚成奶爸 I woke up to find I’d transmigrated into the world of The Bustling Siheyuan. Not only had I become an engineer, I was a single dad, too! There’s Qin Hairu, who sucks people dry; Silly Zhu, who lusts after widows; the sanctimonious First Master; the Second Master, who has grand ambitions but little ability; the Third Master, who’s always looking for a bargain; the ungrateful Wang Banggeng; Jia Zhangshi, who refuses to act her age; and Xu Damao, who’s full of schemes… The courtyard is packed with 5.2kReads6.7Score15414d adds
- 177 Take Revenge on the Whole Village: Knowing All Its Secrets Feels So Good 复仇全村，掌握全村秘密不要太爽 [Pure Wish Fulfillment] [Extremely Funny] [You’ll Regret Not Reading This] After being reborn, I become the village chief and learn everyone’s secrets. Zhao Lan: “Chief, could you please keep quiet about my falsified accounts...” Jin MiaoMiao: “Chief, surely we can sit down and talk some things over.” 42.3kReads9.5Score2.9k14d adds
- 178 Siheyuan: I Return from Famine Refuge, Only to Find My Sister Sold 四合院：逃荒归来妹妹被卖 One heroine, a fishing System, fishing across myriad worlds, and putting troublesome people in their place. Siblings Ye Tiancheng and Ye Tianshuang are entrusted to the Jia family by their parents. When disaster strikes and there isn't enough food, the protagonist follows his master away from home. The Jia family schemes to get rid of his younger sister and seize his family's home. When the protagonist returns, they even hire people to beat him. After he dies tragically, a modern-day man with th 1.4kReads6.9Score10114d adds
- 179 Siheyuan: Starting with a Job After Returning to the City 四合院之从回城工作开始 [Revenge]+ [Behind the Scenes]+ [Mastermind]+ [Period]+ [No Golden Finger]+ [No System] This novel has no System. The opening is slow, the scheming and traps take time to set up, and the story is long. If that bothers you, don’t click! “It’s the 1980s. If I don’t set traps for them now, those beasts will be old before I get the chance!” Forced by the beasts of the courtyard to go work in the countryside, Li Jun finally returns to the city to get his revenge! Third Master: loses all his money, ha 1.8kReads7.1Score—14d adds
- 180 Film and TV Crossover: My Dad Is Su Daqiang, and I Cut Ties With My Biological Mom 综影：我爸苏大强，断绝生物妈 [Ensemble of TV dramas: All Is Well, Nothing But Thirty, To Be a Better Man, Ode to Joy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and more]. Su Mingxin woke up one day to find himself in a hospital, with a droopy-eyed old man who looked like Takeshi Kaneshiro claiming to be his father. After absorbing the man’s memories, he learned that he had transmigrated into the world of All Is Well and become Su Mingyu’s twin brother. Because their mother had to change her plans to move to Shanghai after becoming pregnant with the tw 43.6kReads7.7Score2.7k14d adds
- 181 Siheyuan: A Beijing Beauty in Red 四合院：京韵红颜 This is a slow-burn courtyard-house story! I just want to write a courtyard-house novel true to its era! No murders, no superpowers! Ordinary people facing ordinary problems! When all the coincidences come together, things stop being ordinary! Multiple heroines are perfectly normal in a male-oriented novel. If you have a problem with that, keep it to yourself. If you’re looking for someone who can casually summon the strength of a pillar, beat Yi Zhonghai to a pulp, and kick Jia Zhangshi, please 3.5kReads—Score10314d adds
- 182 Siheyuan: After Supporting Yi Zhonghai in His Old Age, I Take Off 四合院：养老易中海后，原地起飞 The real “Love in the Courtyard”! If the vultures can give me emotional points, can they really be called vultures? “They’re all my dearest friends and family.” This is the story of Li Weiguo using emotional points to reach the peak, and of his loving relationship with his “dearest friends and family.” “Weiguo, this is the empire your Uncle Yi built for you!” Yi Zhonghai felt that he had reached a higher plane! 3.1kReads7.1Score12714d adds
- 183 This Silly Zhu in the Siheyuan Is Quite the Charmer 四合院这个傻柱有点潇洒 (If you don't like Qin Huairu, feel free to skip this.) He Yuzhu is reborn with a Negative Emotion Value System. Starting in 1952, he gets to Qin Huairu first and lives a full, satisfying life with little bitterness. Come see the everyday life of Silly Zhu! 6.9kReads8.9Score21714d adds
- 184 Siheyuan: A Life of Freedom Begins After Leaving the Army 四合院：肆意人生从退伍开始 Just discharged from the army, Yang Hao unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan and awakens a golden finger. See how he gets by in a courtyard full of shameless scoundrels, with a few lovely confidantes by his side. Well, you know what I mean. This book is entirely set in a fictional parallel world. Please don’t confuse it with reality. 26.6kReads7.6Score1.3k14d adds
- 185 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Make Silly Zhu Choose 四合院：开局让傻柱做选择题 Zhou Kai transmigrates into the 1960s-set Love in the Courtyard and awakens a God-Tier Multiple-Choice System. From the start, he drags the courtyard’s miscreants into a quiz dimension. Silly Zhu: “What? Qin Huairu is a fake sweetheart, and she wants to leave me without an heir?” Lou Xiao'e: “What? Silly Zhu and I have a son?” Second Uncle: “I raided Lou Xiao'e’s home to become a leader? No way!” Xu Damao: “The person who angered my father to death was me? How could that be?” Qin Huairu: “Silly 4.9kReads8.8Score21014d adds
- 186 Siheyuan, 1948: I, Sha Zhu, Never Let Myself Be Mistreated 四合院1948：我傻柱从不憋屈 [Siheyuan makeover] [Multiple film and TV worlds] [Multiple heroines] [No messy love triangles or angst] [Self-interest has nothing to do with right or wrong] The System picked the wrong person, left behind a beginner’s gift pack, then grabbed its bucket and ran! It brought He Yuzhu from a later era to Beiping in late 1948, in a world blending films and TV dramas. He even became the sixteen-year-old Silly Zhu from the Siheyuan! The original plot? What original plot? Now that he’s transmigrated, 30Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 187 Siheyuan: Here I Come, You Beasts 四合院之禽兽们我来啦 Multiple female leads, parallel timelines, a world blending several screen franchises, a harmonious family, and putting scumbags in their place... Li Xiangyang, a young man from the 21st century, served in the military for ten years and returned home covered in honors after leaving the army. He planned to go back to his hometown and care for his parents, but came across a woman trying to take her own life by jumping into a river. Without a second thought, he plunged into the water to save her on 114Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 188 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Gets Both Wealth and Beauty 四合院之何雨柱财色兼收 A PhD in metallurgy was killed in an ambush by Jia Banggeng’s grandson, then unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of He Yuzhu in the courtyard compound. Fortunately, although resources were scarce in this era, he had his metallurgical knowledge and Silly Zhu’s remarkable cooking skills. He could go to university, produce high-grade steel, design the Beijing Jeep, develop televisions, train master craftsmen for the nation, take domestic cars abroad, research electrical appliances, open up th 916Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 189 What Do You Mean? You Can Earn Cash Back for Dancing Like a Party Girl 什么叫？蹦精神小妹也能获得返现 "Hey, old man, why'd you give me a free bun? What are you after?" #Multiple Heroines #Invincible Cashback #Fun Story #Comedy #Safe to Read #Urban Superpowers After Lu Ye gets laid off by his company, he's about to join the mass exodus back to his hometown. But then, out of nowhere, three eccentric girls show up before him! They're so broke their pockets are emptier than their faces, and they even steal Lu Ye's meat buns! "Old man, mind if we snag a bun?" One of the girls says this, then grabs a 43Reads—Score17014d adds
- 190 Me? The Siheyuan's Boss! 我？四合院话事人！ (He won’t fawn over the deaf old lady or the Yan family, sympathize with capitalists, or sign any letters of forgiveness. Read with confidence.) He transmigrates as Silly Zhu just as He Daqing runs away, leaving for six months. Silly Zhu’s high fever won’t break, and he dies. When the transmigrator arrives, it’s just him and Yushui, dependent on each other. Seeing little Yushui beside him, weeping and painfully thin, makes his heart ache. From sending Yi Zhonghai and his wife to labor reform, to 6.9kReads8.0Score14114d adds
- 191 The Pearl of Time and Space: Starting from Siheyuan 时空神珠之从四合院开始 Reborn from the apocalypse into a Beijing courtyard, he travels through the heavens with the help of his golden finger. He was a little panicked when he first arrived, but thankfully, the supreme treasure from his previous life helped him recover some of his strength. After transmigrating through the Ming Dynasty and countless worlds, I have no morals. I walk the demonic path and the wicked path. Whether I earn a good name or a bad one, I follow my own way. 14.9kReads7.2Score83814d adds
- 192 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Is No One to Mess With When He Has a Dual-Transmigration Portal 四合院：有双穿门的傻柱不好惹 Silly Zhu travels through a pair of portals from 1951 to the future year of 2011, where he witnesses his own fate with his very eyes. From that moment on, a brand-new He Yuzhu is born. No one gets to take advantage of me. Whoever crosses me, I'll kill! 16kReads7.3Score56014d adds
- 193 Back to the Fifties: Quietly Cultivating Immortality in the Siheyuan 重回五零：我在四合院低调修仙 In 2025, workaholic Lin Xiuyuan died from overwork and was reborn in 1950 as a ten-year-old boy everyone hated in a courtyard house on Nanluoguxiang. A whole courtyard of predators watched him hungrily, while the storms of a new era gathered behind him. But no one knew that hidden in his Five Elements Banner was a blessed paradise belonging to Patriarch Heshe of Mount Shu, along with the Extraordinary Book of Heshe, a cultivation manual pointing straight to the Great Dao. On the surface, he was 7.7kReads5.4Score28014d adds
- 194 Siheyuan: Getting Roasted Pig Trotters Through Sign-In 四合院：从签到获得烤猪蹄开始 Dawn brightened, and a streak of orange-red crept over the rooftops in the distance. The whole world seemed to wake up bit by bit. The breakfast stalls outside the residential complex began steaming, while office workers on electric scooters zipped past in their coats. Everything was proceeding as usual. 711Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 195 From the Start, I Inherited a Wizard's Legacy, Leaving the Siheyuan Bigwigs Dumbfounded 开局巫师传承四合院大佬全懵了 Reborn in a 1960s courtyard compound. While everyone else struggles to survive, I awaken a wizard’s legacy. The fishing nets I cast into Shichahai bring up more than fish: beneath the water lie dozens of chests of gold, sealed away for decades. When I’m sent to the countryside for manual labor, it’s not to some bitterly cold wasteland, but to a natural training ground and medicinal herb storehouse. I quietly farm and secretly cultivate my powers, casually helping Silly Zhu see Qin Huairu for who 4.6kReads5.9Score25314d adds
- 196 Siheyuan: Stop Pretending! Your System Is Mine 四合院：别装咯！你的系统是我的 [System] [All Skills Learned by Hand] [Some Dark Edges] [Pure Plunder-Based Growth] A spy System! A grievance-collecting System! A two-world transmigration System! A sign-in System! A beauty-collecting System! Lin Yuan had originally wanted to laze around. But after accidentally plundering a spy System and discovering it came with all sorts of benefits, as well as the need for energy, he had no choice but to keep plundering! Afterward, he used the various skills rewarded by the System to make en 1.1kReads—Score15014d adds
- 197 Siheyuan: The Player Behind the Scenes 四合院：幕后玩家 A siheyuan story with moderate conflict, a pocket dimension, farming, and an intelligent protagonist who never gets dumbed down. It won't jump straight into fighting and killing. If that's what you're looking for, this isn't the story for you. The protagonist won't show himself, instead staying hidden behind the scenes. He's selfish and amoral, occasionally showing kindness, but most of the time he's no good person. The pace is on the slow side, with the novel expected to run to a million words. 129.5kReads6.3Score12.8k14d adds
- 198 Siheyuan: With Space at My Fingertips, I Make My Own Good Life 四合院：空间在手，日子我有 Xu Qing accidentally transmigrated into Love in the Courtyard and became one of the courtyard's residents. See how Xu Qing grows and turns his own fate, as well as everyone else's, around with the help of a small pocket dimension. 61Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Siheyuan: Putting the Beasts in Their Place and Making a Fortune 四合院：整治禽兽，发家致富 (Period setting + drama + mystery-solving) After I transmigrated into the Siheyuan, I, Liu Jianguo, was determined to uncover all the mysteries hidden in the courtyard! This story begins in 1955! Volume One fills in the missing clues from the original story, letting readers learn the full story behind the courtyard's scoundrels. Volume Two begins the cleanup of those scoundrels. 3.9kReads7.3Score11414d adds
- 200 Siheyuan: The Couch Potato Turns Things Around 四合院：咸鱼被翻身 (No demonizing characters. If you like stories where people are constantly fighting and killing, please don't read this!!!) (No hostility, focused on human nature, multiple female leads, and an ordinary, down-to-earth protagonist.) A modern-day wage slave, ground down by workplace manipulation, collapsed at his desk after working overtime and somehow ended up in a courtyard in 1959. Without an overpowered golden finger, he only wants to take it easy and live a carefree life. Pushed along by the 3.7kReads6.4Score10714d adds
