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- 151 Siheyuan: I'm Xu Damao, but I Won't Be Xu Damao 四合院：我许大茂，不做许大茂 This book has no System, golden finger, or cheat. This is an all-new Xu Damao, transported to another world and made into an entirely new person. It tells a different story about Xu Damao! A man in his thirties from a later era, Xu Damao, gets hit by a truck. In that instant, the primordial power of heaven and earth causes him and the Xu Damao from the courtyard compound to collide, and he passively transmigrates. The courtyard’s Xu Damao is whisked away by a Dongfeng truck. See how the Xu Damao 1.2kReads5.5Score—Shelves
- 152 Siheyuan: You Abandoned Your Father? I’ll Send Him Straight to the Military Administration Committee 四合院：弃养？反手送父上军管会 The moment He Yuze transmigrated into He Yuzhu, he had no time to experience life as the whole courtyard's punching bag. He took the proof of abandonment and hauled He Daqing straight to the Military Control Commission. His own father wanted to shirk responsibility? Not a chance! Then the System dropped a learning buff on him, and his cooking, appraisal, medical, and other skills skyrocketed. Now look at the courtyard's scheming residents: Yi Zhonghai tried to guilt-trip him with moral lectures? 35kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 153 Siheyuan Culinary God: I, He Yuzhu, Got Married from the Start 四合院神厨：我何雨柱开局就结婚 [Heartwarming + everyday life + plot changes + one heroine] After transmigrating as He Yuzhu and awakening the Chef God System, how will he deal with the bunch of pests in the courtyard? He marries a wife from the start, so Qin Huairu and Uncle Yi can forget about guilt-tripping him! Jia Zhangshi and Banggeng, don’t cause trouble, or Brother Zhu will make you pay! 29.3kReads8.1Score1.2kShelves
- 154 Siheyuan: The Civil Engineering Big Shot Has Arrived! 四合院：土木大佬驾到！ [No System] [Has a Spatial Dimension] [Low on Violence] Liu Bo: an utterly ordinary name. But if you have an arrogant subordinate named Long Aotian, then Liu Bo must be someone extraordinary. The quintessential big-shot protagonist, no doubt about it. But he's not the protagonist of this story. Liu Bo is a construction worker in 2025, working as a site manager at a construction site in a tiny county town ranked somewhere around the eighteenth tier. It happens to be a night shift pouring concrete 1.6kReads5.9Score107Shelves
- 155 Conquering the Realm, Part Four: In Search of the Tripods 问鼎天下第四部之寻鼎记 Conquering the World, Part Four: The Quest for the Tripod 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Siheyuan: My Uncle Is Yuan Tiangang 四合院：我舅舅是袁天罡 Yuan Tiangang, the Tang dynasty's Imperial Astrologer, wakes up to find himself the unlikely uncle of He Yuzhu, a man living in a Beijing courtyard. Jia Zhangshi throws a tantrum? A dose of Tiangang Arts will set her straight. Yi Zhonghai puts on a false front? Let's calculate the day your bad luck will strike. Qin Huairu wants to leech off you? Uncle will teach you what it means to “make you cry with the Huayang Needle.” Everyone is dumbfounded: Is this old man a divine being or a lunatic? He Y 2.5kReads—Score106Shelves
- 157 Xu Damao's Story Begins in the Siheyuan 许大茂从四合院开始 The courtyard is just where Xu Damao's story begins. How could an era of dramatic change and burning passion go by without me, in the prime of my youth? See how Xu Damao, once a genuine hypocrite and villain, and his two little companions build lives unlike any other. With an unreliable little System, we're not counting on him. The missions are yours, so what do they have to do with me? We'll make our own decisions and live our own lives! (A note: this is a slow-burn story that spans a long peri 2.2kReads5.8Score—Shelves
- 158 Conquering the Realm, Part Three: The Yongzhou Tripod 问鼎天下第三部之雍州鼎 Conquering the World, Part Three: The Yongzhou Tripod 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Rewrites His Life 四合院：傻柱改写人生 In his previous life, he was driven out of the Siheyuan and froze to death beneath a bridge. Reborn in this life, he returns to find the courtyard just as it was. But He Yuzhu is no longer the Silly Zhu everyone could push around. 9.6kReads6.7Score338Shelves
- 160 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Age of Empires 四合院：傻柱的帝国时代 In the 1950s, life in the capital was hard, and the winds of change stirred beneath the surface. A modern soul found himself in the body of a young man known as Silly Zhu. His father had run off, leaving only his little sister behind. The courtyard was rife with trouble, and hidden currents swirled through the streets. Fortunately, he had a world of his own: the Age of Empires game world. Starting in the primitive Stone Age, he reclaimed land, developed production, and smelted metal, steadily l 42kReads7.3Score3.8kShelves
- 161 Siheyuan: Returning from the Mass Grave to Collect Blood Debts 四合院：乱葬岗归来，血债血偿 At eighteen, Lu Jianjun is framed and nearly left to die in the wilderness, but by sheer luck, he survives. After that brush with death, he sees through the schemes and selfish motives of every household in the courtyard. Returning to the compound with the experience and livelihood skills he accumulated in his previous life, all he wants is to keep his own life steady, earn an honest living with his own hands, avoid the endless conflicts around him, protect the people he cares about, and carve o 135Reads7.4Score136Shelves
- 162 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Won't Leave Me Alone 四合院：秦淮茹赖上我 Zhao Xiyan was an ordinary small-town exam grinder. He had little ambition, but his family's comfortable means let him live a pretty decent life. But just as a speeding dump truck was about to hit one of his students, he rushed forward on instinct. He saved the student, but also had an intimate and decidedly unpleasant encounter with the truck. When he woke again, he was already riding in a donkey cart. Across from him, a young woman with bright eyes, pearly teeth, and two long braids was watchi 189.2kReads8.1Score9kShelves
- 163 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! 45.4kReads8.3Score2.1kShelves
- 164 Siheyuan: Reborn, I Settle Every Score 四合院：重生后，我一一清算 Synopsis of "Siheyuan: After Being Reborn, I Settle Every Score" In 1958, in a Beijing siheyuan on Longxugou, Chen Feng goes from a vengeful ghost in a freezing prison to a young man in his prime after being reborn. In his previous life, he watched his parents get framed through the collusion of the Third Master, Niu Degui, the Second Master, Li Mengcang, and the First Master, Yan Daomao. Their property was seized, and they died with their names unjustly stained. The Jia and Xu families took adv 5Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 165 Siheyuan: A Carpenter Moves into the Courtyard 四合院：院里来了个木匠 He transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard and becomes a level-two carpenter, one of the Eight Great Tradesmen. Faced with the whole courtyard full of scheming neighbors, Jiang Chen just wants to live in peace. You can plot your schemes, and I'll live my life. When Qin Huairu comes over to borrow something, he makes her write an IOU. When Jia Zhangshi throws a tantrum and refuses to take no for an answer, he reports her to the authorities. When Xu Damao tries to sow discord, Jiang Chen shuts 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 Siheyuan: Bridging the Myriad Worlds 四合院之对缝诸天万界 Whether the courtyard is in chaos or not is up to the Jia family. Silly Zhu does the dirty work, and Old Yi keeps watch. But ever since Wang Xiaotian arrived at the courtyard, everything changed... 15Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 167 Qin's Replacement: A Bricklayer Rewrites Three Hundred Years of Qin History 秦替：泥水匠改写了三百年秦史 Qin's Substitute In 1991, Zhang Daode, a boy from a small town in southwestern Hunan, studied hard and earned excellent results on his high school entrance exam. But someone with power took his place, crushing his hopes of continuing his education and forcing him into a life at the bottom of society as a bricklayer who knew nothing but hardship. Then a sudden fall at a construction site turned his life upside down. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated to the end of the Warring States p 1.6kReads9.2Score174Shelves
- 168 The 1950s: Making a Happy, Prosperous Life 年代五零：红红火火过日子 Reborn in the 1950s. What? Worried about starving to death? Don’t panic, don’t panic. We’ve got a pocket dimension. What? This is the notorious Courtyard of Beasts, where everyone’s supposedly a scumbag? What am I supposed to do? Luckily, my dad became the First Master, and my mom is the director of the women’s federation at the steel mill. Who still dares mess with me? Sun Zhengguo says: Go wild all you want, just don’t drag me into it. I only want to spend this happy life with my family. Both 38.2kReads8.2Score1.3kShelves
- 169 Siheyuan: I Use the Law to Crush All Defiance 四合院：我用国法镇压一切不服 One heroine + smart protagonist + real-life cases + industrial powerhouse + grand vision By chance, Song Yuan arrives at that famous courtyard. Armed with a copy of the "Public Security Administration Punishments Regulations", he easily puts the courtyard's vermin in their place! Having lived another life, of course he wants to contribute to his country. He'll make sure to have a presence at the Canton Fair! A story about a modern person using the rule of law to navigate life in a courtyard. He 36.7kReads8.6Score1.7kShelves
- 170 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? 31.4kReads6.4Score1.1kShelves
- 171 Siheyuan: Getting Rich Quietly 四合院：闷声发大财 Courtyard Life #Period Fiction #Comedy #Feel-Good Fiction #Old Fox #Harem #Farming Fiction He transmigrated to 1952 and became Chen Yuanshan, an apprentice at Fengzeyuan. His father was a martyr and left him 13 million in old currency and two main rooms. He thought he could lie flat, but the courtyard was full of beasts. Jia Zhangshi sat on the ground every day, wailing, “Old Jia! Someone’s bullying me!” Silly Zhu called every woman “Sister Qin” and beat up Xu Damao whenever he saw him. Xu Damao 14.8kReads5.3Score442Shelves
- 172 Conquering the Realm, Part Two: The Yuzhou Tripod 问鼎天下第二部之豫州鼎 Conquering the World, Part Two: The Yuzhou Tripod 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 1940: I Have the Thousand-Blade Demon Saber for Killing the Japanese! 1940：杀鬼子我有魔刀千刃！ A modern college student transmigrates to 1940 and takes over the body of a child named Wu Liuqi, who was killed by the Japanese. He awakens the Enemy-Slaying, Nation-Strengthening System! With the template of the assassin Wu Liuqi and the Thousand Blades Demon Sword in hand, he throws his head back and shouts, “You Japanese devils, your grandpa is here!” 2.1kReads7.4Score107Shelves
- 174 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Reborn in One Body, Returning to 1949 四合院何雨柱三合一魂穿1949 A rookie writer's commentary, set in a slow-burning, realistic period drama! A chef, a practitioner of traditional martial arts, and a skilled slingshot shooter, with no System and no accelerated time in the pocket dimension. It may look like a story about everyday family life, but the food, antiques, and hunting are all portrayed with absolute realism. The words are imbued with love for the country and its people, and readers only need to uncover the foreshadowing that's worth savoring. Feel fr 10.5kReads8.2Score302Shelves
- 175 An Ordinary Life in the Siheyuan 四合院的普通人生 A story about a courtyard house, seen through the eyes of an ordinary person. It's full of negativity, but there's positivity too. No invincible heroes, no toilet humor. Thank you for your support! 56.3kReads8.3Score1.8kShelves
- 176 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 37.1kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
- 177 Myriad Realms: From the Start in Siheyuan, I Rise to the Supreme 万界之开局四合院，万界成至高 A new story is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 19.4kReads7.4Score706Shelves
- 178 Siheyuan: Getting Better with Age, If You Can Do It, Step Up 四合院：越活越牛，谁行谁上 Song Yan, a top-ranked Honor of Kings streamer, dies suddenly during a livestream and transmigrates to the era of “Beasts in the Courtyard.” From the start, Jia Zhangshi and Banggeng bully him, but he unexpectedly awakens the Ultimate Counterattack System! Whenever he’s provoked, sabotaged, or set up, he instantly gets a reward: Any Honor of Kings skill he wants! Activate Kai’s Immortal Body, and anyone who touches me gets sent flying! Once Dian Wei goes berserk, every scumbag in the courtyard 3.6kReads7.3Score102Shelves
- 179 Siheyuan: From the Start, I'm Silly Zhu's Uncle, Taking Him into the Army 四合院，开局傻柱他叔，带他从军 Military story + no holier-than-thou protagonist After transmigrating as He Daqing's younger brother, He Daming, he sets out to change the future for himself and his nephew, He Yuzhu. As a regimental commander, He Daming resolutely takes him into the army, embarking on a moving and heroic journey together. 12.4kReads8.2Score479Shelves
- 180 Siheyuan: I Wield My Brush and Stir Up the Storm 四合院：执笔搅风云 Reborn in 1952, Wang Ping'an transmigrates to Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. Alone in the world, he seems like a timid, easily bullied orphan to his neighbors. He makes a living writing articles and stories, often drawing on the people and events in the courtyard for inspiration. Anyone who deliberately gives him a hard time or schemes against him ends up as a villain in one of his stories, and the rumors soon spread throughout the entire compound. Everyone assumes he is a helpless writer, 8.2kReads5.4Score258Shelves
- 181 Lord of Reincarnation in the Nine Domains 九域轮回之主 Synopsis Good-for-nothing Lin Feng is betrayed by his beloved and his clan brother, stripped of all his cultivation, and thrown into the Blood Prison of the Nine Netherworlds. In his despair, he awakens the Nine Hells Reincarnation Seal, which can devour baleful energy, souls, and even the myriad laws of the heavens! From then on, the Blood Prison becomes his hunting ground, baleful energy his nourishment, and ferocious beasts his watchdogs. When he shatters the Nine Hells and returns to the Ni 570Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 182 Siheyuan: I Handed Everything Over to the Nation 四合院之我把一切上交国家 In the long course of history, one era is forever etched into the deepest recesses of the Chinese people's memory: the grueling War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. He Daqing arrives in the world of the Siheyuan, becoming another He Daqing. When the invaders' iron hooves trample our land, the country is shattered and its people suffer. But the sons and daughters of China never surrender. They stand tall, composing one stirring anthem of resistance after another with their blood and the 1.8kReads6.5Score—Shelves
- 183 Siheyuan: The Jie Sect's Fortune! Seizing the Fortune of All Things! 四合院：截教气运！截取万物！ In the Battle of the Investiture of the Gods, the Jie Sect suffered a crushing defeat, and Tongtian was forced to swallow the Saint-Falling Pill. Enraged, Tongtian stripped away the remnants of the Jie Sect's fortune and sent them into the endless void, hoping that one day someone destined to inherit it could lead the Jie Sect to greatness again. Hongjun learned of this. The Creation Jade Disc nurtured among his three flowers shot out a beam of golden light, intent on scattering the Jie Sect's 8.7kReads8.1Score443Shelves
- 184 Siheyuan: The Whole Courtyard Is Asking for Trouble, So I Wipe Them All Out 四合院：全院作死，我直接杀光 After his Nascent Soul perishes, he returns to the courtyard in 1953 as a security chief, carrying on the legacy of a Celestial Master. But he discovers that his elder sister is dead and his nephew is on the brink of death. Those who seized the He family home and bullied the orphan will face karmic justice through a series of “accidents.” 594Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 185 Siheyuan: Becoming a Rogue Everyone Loves 四合院：做一个人见人爱的流氓 [System] [Multiple Heroines] [Low on Grimness] [Historical Fantasy] Lin Muzhi, a down-and-out writer from the 21st century, wakes up as Lin Weidong, a backward young man in a 1965 courtyard. His neighbors are rubbing their hands together, ready to crush this “troublemaker” and take everything from him. But... The whole courtyard soon realizes that this time, the newcomer isn't prey. Armed with the perspective of a modern civilization, he's come to rule this world of tangled relationships like it 38.5kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
- 186 Siheyuan: This Time, It's Finally My Turn, Right?! 四合院之这次终于轮到我了吧！ [If you dislike Qin Huairu, don't read] [Multiple heroines] [System] Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, Yan Bugui, He Yuzhu, Xu Damao, Jia Zhangshi, and Deaf Granny. With these seven people all in one place, there'll never be a shortage of stories... 45.2kReads8.6Score2.1kShelves
- 187 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.) 83.2kReads5.5Score3.9kShelves
- 188 Conquering the Realm, Part One: The Jizhou Tripod 问鼎天下第一部之冀州鼎 Conquering the World, Part One: The Jizhou Tripod 261Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 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! 3.7kReads5.5Score100Shelves
- 190 After Seven Rebirths, I Was Spoiled Rotten, Yu Yutianmo 七次重生后我被宠上天雨宇天墨 After Being Reborn Seven Times, I Was Doted on by Everyone, by Yu Yutianmo 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 I Thought I Was the Protagonist, but Turns Out I’m Just an Extra 以为是主角，谁知是个打酱油的 Thought I was the protagonist, but it turns out I'm just a bit player 156Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 I Came Here to Fight for the Emperor’s Favor, So Why Are You Making Me Fight Zombies? 我是来宫斗的，你却让我打僵尸 I came here to fight palace intrigue, but you want me to fight zombies. 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 Legend of Mir: The Dragon Era 热血传奇：天龙纪元 Lin Xiao was an ordinary person from an ordinary world. After an accident, he transmigrated into a thrilling, legendary world full of danger. Unknown threats and challenges lurked everywhere. New to this strange world, Lin Xiao struggled to find his footing. But fate can turn in an instant. He met like-minded companions, including Su Li and Nuoxue. Fighting side by side and growing stronger together, they gradually conceived a bold idea: to establish the Longyuan Star Alliance. Through everyon 236Reads9.5Score—Shelves
- 194 After Meeting Qi Tongwei, Things Took One Wild Turn After Another 遇到祁同伟后，那真是跌宕起伏啊 After meeting Qi Tongwei, things took one wild turn after another. 148Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 I Transmigrated with a Braised Egg and Became a Princess in the Continent of Hanyue 穿越，带着卤蛋当公主，大陆翰月 Transmigrate, bring a braised egg and become a princess, on the Hanyue Continent 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 When the Game Descended, the Simp Awakened and Became Invincible 游戏降临，舔狗觉醒后无敌了 The game arrives, and after the simp awakens, he becomes invincible 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 In the Siheyuan, Silly Zhu Stops Being a Doormat 四合院傻柱不在做冤大头 Snow blanketed the world. As he lay dying beneath a bridge, He Yuzhu watched his archrival, Xu Damao, summon the last of his strength to carry him back to the courtyard, and regret tore at his heart. Reborn as a young man, he awakens a mysterious pocket dimension and gains the skills of a culinary god. He immediately cuts ties with the Jia family. He will repay the deaf old lady's kindness, ease his younger sister's suffering, and rekindle his bond with Lou Xiao'e. As for those bloodsucking para 918Reads8.6Score101Shelves
- 198 Siheyuan: Our Damai Won’t Take This Lying Down 四合院：咱大茂绝不憋屈 Siheyuan: Our Da Mao refuses to be pushed around 211Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 1938: Purification 1938，净化 This is a book about killing Japanese invaders. I hope you enjoy it! The hatred of a nation and the vendettas of families must be passed down from generation to generation! Never forget, not even for a single day. Remember this! In the not-too-distant future, our wish is sure to come true! Let us encourage one another! 3.5kReads—Score287Shelves
- 200 I’m Really Not a Scumbag Pillar 我真不是渣柱 Zhang Baoshi, a young man from the modern world, unexpectedly finds his soul transported into the body of Silly Zhu, a sixteen-year-old character from Love in the Courtyard. Having read plenty of fanfiction, he immediately swoops in on Qin Huairu and activates a pocket-dimension System, hoping to live a quiet life. But fate has other plans: Qin Huairu ends up marrying Jia Dongxu, leaving him utterly disheartened. Remembering how the Jia family drained him dry in the original story, until he froz 31Reads6.1Score—Shelves
