Novels like Starting at Courtyard No. 96, I Rule Both the Underworld and the Law!
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- 51 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Turn Down a Blind Date and Steal Huairu Away 四合院：开局拒绝相亲，截胡淮茹 [The rating just came out today, so it’ll slowly climb from here] [Mildly edgy] [Funny] [Multiple heroines] [System] [No forced, brainless conflicts] [The original characters’ personalities won’t be overly demonized] [No pointless back-and-forth] On the eve of being told to go on a blind date, Chen Yu, who grew up in this world, suddenly awakens a Snatching System. From then on, things get completely out of hand… The blurb doesn’t do it justice. Read the story for yourself. 24.3kReads6.7Score1.9kShelves
- 52 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Devour the Poultry of the Courtyard 四合院：开局吃了众禽绝户 [No More Suffering] [Moderately Ruthless] [Invincible Male Lead] [Pocket Dimension] [Torturing the Courtyard Beasts] [No Relationship Drama] Li Zhengqing, a modern-day office drudge, transmigrates into the body of a young man from Li Village in the Red Star Commune, in the parallel-world setting of Love in the Courtyard. From the start, he receives a letter from the capital: his uncle, who worked at the steel mill, died in a workplace accident, and Li Zhengqing is to inherit his house and job. B 9.7kReads8.3Score345Shelves
- 53 Siheyuan: I Have Countless Death Warriors 四合院：我有无数死士 Multiple Heroines + Pocket Dimension + Death Squad + Siheyuan Crossover + Tomb Raiding World Begins After Chapter 555 The protagonist takes a Qin Dynasty approach and is rather selfish, using his pocket dimension and death squad to live happily. None of that damn nonsense. The early chapters focus on the Siheyuan setting. Later, the story shifts to building up a faction, including overseas. The protagonist is pretty wicked and selfish, so don't read if you can't handle that. 40.5kReads6.6Score2.7kShelves
- 54 The Sky Fell. I Blinked and Woke Up in Nanluoguxiang 天塌了，一闭一睁我穿到了南锣鼓 (Lighthearted and cheerful) (Golden finger: Secret Realm Space) After working overtime all night, Li Kaixin dies suddenly on the job and unexpectedly transmigrates to Courtyard 93, across from Courtyard 95 in the world of Birds Fill the Courtyard. Here, he has loving parents, younger siblings who adore one another, grandparents who love him more than life itself, simple-hearted villagers, and helpful neighbors, as well as... Follow Li Kaixin as he makes it through the lean years and builds a goo 21kReads6.8Score1.4kShelves
- 55 Zhang San's Fun-Filled Life in the Siheyuan 四合院之张三的乐子人生 Zhang San's soul transmigrates into the year 1962. The System requires him to move into the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang before it can activate. Isn't that the courtyard full of beasts? There's no way he's moving in... Hmm... This is nice... Yan Bugui: I'm the Third Uncle of this courtyard, Red Star Elemen... Smack... Smack... Smack... Yan Bugui gets three hard slaps across the face and stares at Zhang San, stunned... Zhang San looks at his hands in confusion. “Why do my palms hurt?” Yi Zho 1.9kReads5.5Score103Shelves
- 56 Siheyuan: Xu Damao Knocks Out Silly Zhu from the Start 四合院：许大茂开局KO傻柱 [Transmigration, Four-Sided Courtyard, System, Multiple Heroines] UFC champion Xu Damao refused to throw a fixed fight, so the boss pulling the strings sent thugs to beat him to death. He transmigrated into the body of Xu Damao, a resident of Nanluoguxiang in the capital in 1965. He opened his eyes already struggling on the brink of death, then unexpectedly awakened a System. Whether you’re the Four-Sided Courtyard’s battle god or its paragon of morality, first you get a beating, and then we’ll 589Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 57 Siheyuan: Liu Guangtian Is Back 四合院我刘光天回来了 Splitting up the family + Low on hostility + No goody-two-shoes + Doesn't meddle in other people's business “What kind of terrible karma did I rack up to transmigrate into Liu Guangtian, who gets beaten every day?” “System, spatial dimension, mysterious old mentor, where are you?” Tan Jianjun thought through every kind of golden finger he'd seen in Tomato novels, but not a single one appeared. “Since I've become Liu Guangtian, I need to think carefully about what to do with my future. Mom and Da 224Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Siheyuan: Everyone Is a Villain 四合院之全员恶人 This is a world thrown out of balance. At its center stands a courtyard house that seems, on the surface, to be Love in the Courtyard, but is really a den of schemers. Behind every upright, respectable face lies another side no one knows about. Zhang Erhe plunges headfirst into this whirlpool. Will he sink, find redemption, or... 22.1kReads7.8Score963Shelves
- 59 Siheyuan: I Started with a Fortune of Ten Billion and Want Nothing to Do with Those Beasts 四合院：开局百亿家产不和禽兽玩 A veteran anti-gang police officer starts out in 1948. What chance do the Four-Sided Courtyard's pests stand against a ruthless, scheming man with a modern mindset? What will become of them in the end? See how the protagonist uncovers the secrets hidden within the courtyard. If you want to know, read on. 21.5kReads7.5Score1.1kShelves
- 60 Siheyuan: The System Connects Two Worlds, and I Give the Resources to the Nation 四合院：系统通两界，资源给国家 Modern-day Zhou Feng transmigrates to the world of the Siheyuan and gains a portal that connects two worlds. As long as he riles up the courtyard’s troublemakers, the portal will level up. So he stirs up trouble in the courtyard while trading between two worlds! When the country in the 1960s discovers his identity, the whole world changes. “What kind of machine is this? It can even keep things cold?” “Good heavens, you put clothes in there and it washes them by itself?” “How does he have hot wat 21kReads6.6Score1.4kShelves
- 61 A Siheyuan in the 1960s: Six Equipment Slots from the Start! 年代四合院，开局六个装备栏！ After his soul transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard, Jiang Wen looks at the beast-filled Siheyuan next door and breathes a sigh of relief. Oh? I have six equipment slots too? Great! Bring on the cheat abilities! Oh? My previous self studied medicine, and I've inherited all his memories? Great! Bring on the experience! Oh? My previous self was a teacher at the school, and now I'm both an apprentice and the head of internal medicine? Great! Bring on the powerful connections! Now that everythin 18.5kReads7.0Score1.1kShelves
- 62 Siheyuan: My Brother-in-Law Is the Head of the Public Security Bureau 四合院：我姐夫是治安局局长 Zhang Weidong transmigrates into the world of courtyard houses. His parents were martyrs who gave their lives for the country. His parents' comrades are even more powerful leaders than the big boss! His older sister is the head of the neighborhood office! His brother-in-law is the director of the Beijing Public Security Bureau! And a whole group of uncles and elders, whose names people don't dare say aloud, look after him! With connections like these, he has an incredibly lucky start! Every day 238Reads5.4Score104Shelves
- 63 Siheyuan: After I Transmigrate, the Courtyard Falls into Chaos 四合院：我穿越后，院子乱套了 Tang Zhu, from the twenty-first century, transmigrates for no apparent reason into the world of this notorious courtyard-house drama. Drawing on what he learned from TV shows and novels in his previous life, he immediately breaks the arm and leg of Yang Cuilan, the First Auntie, leaving Yi Zhonghai and the Deaf Old Lady without their strongest ally. He then uses his spatial ability to take the money of the courtyard's troublemakers, drives Liu's two sons to flee their home, and leaves Yan Bugui 1.6kReads5.5Score122Shelves
- 64 Reborn: I Have a Siheyuan in Beiping 重生之我在北平有座四合院 Li Qingsong transmigrates and, for no apparent reason, becomes a naive fourteen-year-old boy. He thinks he has traveled back in time. When he discovers his family owns a courtyard house in the capital, he immediately decides to return there. But on the very day he sets off for the capital, a man named He Yuzhu knocks on his door! He is completely stunned! Join him as he looks after his young sister and witnesses miracles unfold in an era of blood and fire! 1.6kReads5.3Score101Shelves
- 65 Siheyuan Judge: Mending Souls, Settling Seventy-Two Debts 四合院判官：缝魂七十二债 Warning: This is a highly concentrated dark revenge narrative, containing extensive psychological horror based on Chinese folk customs and extreme karmic retribution. Readers seeking warmth and healing, who believe goodness and kindness can solve anything, or who are deeply uncomfortable with “fighting violence with violence,” should steer clear. There is no forgiveness here, only a cold, precise, and meticulously tailored judgment. Chen Jiu, an honest tailor, is framed by the assorted scoundrel 210Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Transmigrated as a Young Bully and Stole Qin Huairu’s Bride 四合院：开局穿成恶少抢亲秦淮茹 The tone is relatively mild, but pure-love fans should stay away: this story has multiple female leads. Modern young man Li Feifan is forced to become a homewrecker and accidentally falls to his death, only to transmigrate into the body of Li Feifan, a young scoundrel in a 1951 Beijing courtyard compound! The System forces him to marry to extend his life, so he crashes Jia Dongxu’s wedding on the spot, forces Qin Huairu to marry him, seizes land, splashes cash, and trounces every scoundrel in t 827Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Is My Mother-in-Law 四合院：秦淮如是我岳母 Courtyard setting + period drama + System + pocket dimension + transmigration, with a focus on “System-powered advantages and overwhelming superiority through supplies.” Fourteen-year-old Wang Ergou, whose real name was Wang Zixuan, lay curled up in the dead grass of a mass grave, covered in blood. In the final moments before losing consciousness, his mind replayed the tragedy that had destroyed his family: His father had been persecuted to death by Red Guards after his own younger brothers, his 1.1kReads8.8Score—Shelves
- 68 Film and TV: From Uncle to The Name of the People, My Rise to the Top 影视：从老舅到名义开启格式人生 "Uncle" + "Blossoms Shanghai" + "The Wind Blows From Longxi" + "The Tale of Rose" + "The Tree of Life"... + "In the Name of the People" = 1990s + TV adaptations and spin-offs + building a fortune + multiple heroines His soul enters the body of Huo Xiaoguang, the previously nonexistent twin brother of Huo Xiaoyang from "Uncle", in 1990. So first he helps his younger brother lose weight, then helps Uncle get up to all kinds of nonsense, and lends Grandpa a hand in reviving Dingqing Restaurant. Whe 1.7kReads7.3Score105Shelves
- 69 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
- 70 Siheyuan: Every Beast in the Courtyard Deserves to Die 四合院：满院禽兽，皆可杀 [Decisive and Ruthless] [No System] [No Heroine] [Kill Them All] [Punish the Scumbags] After his parents are brutally killed, Ye Qing has both legs broken, is thrown out of the siheyuan, and freezes to death on a snowy night. His vengeful spirit lingers. He watches with his own eyes as the beasts in the courtyard divide up the Ye family's wealth and laugh their way through the New Year. Ye Qing is a vengeful demon from hell, crawling back from the morgue to claim their lives. No System, no her 3kReads5.5Score—Shelves
- 71 Siheyuan: Smoke and Rain over the Nine Cities 四合院：九城烟雨 Su Wenyuan, a top secret service agent, opens his eyes to find himself transmigrated into the body of a poor student in 1955. With no connections, no money, and no one to rely on, he is on the verge of being swept away by the tide of the times. Luckily, fortune favors him: he has three golden fingers at his disposal, a storage space, a jade teapot with a spirit spring, and a perception orb that reveals all things. He stocks up on supplies, distinguishes good from evil, and avoids danger at every 14.3kReads6.3Score1.2kShelves
- 72 Siheyuan: A Dream of Yellow Millet 四合院：黄粱梦 [Multiple Themed Scenarios] [Ensemble Cast with Multiple Characters] [Simp for No One] Quick transmigration mini-stories, with no drawn-out misunderstandings or frustrating angst. It's all about the fun, with a focus on taking down scumbags. 7.1kReads8.4Score401Shelves
- 73 Reborn in the Siheyuan, My Readers Make Me Choose 重生四合院，读者让我做选择 With a crash, Xu Damao became the Xu Damao from the courtyard, on the very day he was marrying Lou Xiao'e. Looking at Lou Xiao'e’s youthful, collagen-rich face, if he could keep his virtue intact, he’d be worse than a beast. Better to consummate the marriage first. But what was that girl doing, hugging a roast chicken and chomping on it...? 128Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 In Siheyuan, I Kill the Body and Break the Spirit 四合院里我杀人诛心 [Golden Finger] [Siheyuan] [Feel-Good Story] [Slow Burn] [Smart Protagonist] Modern-day office worker Zhou Ming transmigrates to a Siheyuan. After awakening the golden finger known as the Endless Treasure Vault, he can finally live a life of comfort and plenty. But this courtyard is never peaceful, and Zhou Ming just smiles. As someone who believes in keeping a low profile, Zhou Ming decides to give everyone in the courtyard the life they've always dreamed of. First up is Yi Zhonghai. Since you' 23Reads—Score101Shelves
- 75 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Con the Deaf Old Lady Out of Two Rooms 四合院：开局我先讹老聋子两间房 “Poultry-Tormenting” + “No Being Pushed Around” + “No Deadweight” + “Lone-Wolf Protagonist” + “Doesn’t Fawn Over Anyone” Li Wenyang transmigrates into the world of "The Courtyard Is Full of Poultry". From the start, he catches Grandma Deaf selling ration coupons on the black market, then extorts her out of two rear rooms. This, however, earns him the enmity of a whole bunch of beasts. Watch as Li sets the courtyard straight and takes down the beasts, starting with himself. 14.5kReads8.7Score663Shelves
- 76 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
- 77 Period Drama Crossover: My Vicious Stepmother 年代综影：我那恶毒的后妈 50Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Waiting for the College Entrance Exam in 1977 我在一九七七等高考 Every transmigrator can make a good life for themselves in the era they transmigrate to. But Li Chen couldn't. After transmigrating from the future to 1977, he couldn't adapt to the living conditions of the time. By passing the college entrance exam, he secured the means to keep living in that era. Drawing on his knowledge of how history would unfold, he made his life better and better. Yet from beginning to end, he could never fully fit into that era. When time finally brought him to the era he 284Reads6.5Score171Shelves
- 79 Siheyuan: I Reported Old Deaf Zhang, and Director Yang Was Brought Down 四合院：举报老聋子，杨厂长落马 [No taking in Qin Huairu, no sucking up to Silly Zhu, no dragging things out, no letters of forgiveness, no becoming a purchasing agent] The System gives Li Weidong evidence to report on the courtyard’s troublemakers every day. Of course, Li Weidong makes good use of it. “I’m reporting the old deaf woman for impersonating a martyr’s family member.” Granny Deaf is sent to the detention center. “I’m reporting Yi Zhonghai for embezzling Silly Zhu’s living expenses.” Yi Zhonghai is exiled to the far 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 The Siheyuan Scoundrel 四合院坏的流油 My name is Liu Ding. I transmigrated to 1959, to the courtyard full of beasts. I have no System, no golden finger, and I’ve landed in an era of famine. My original body’s father died from a workplace injury... No System. If you don’t like that, don’t read! 10.4kReads8.0Score413Shelves
- 81 Siheyuan: I’m Even More of a Scoundrel 四合院之我更流氓 Wang Xiaohu somehow ends up in the world of the courtyard homes, but he’s arrived too early. After spending a few months outside the city, unaware of what’s going on, he makes his way to the capital. What happens when a courtyard full of scoundrels comes face to face with a ten-year-old thug? Who do you think will bully whom? 1.2kReads6.7Score107Shelves
- 82 Snatching Chen Xueru from the Start in the Siheyuan 四合院开局截胡陈雪茹 From the start in the world of the courtyard, Lin Hongwei becomes a young veteran who fought in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. As soon as he transmigrates, he awakens a portable space! A whole courtyard full of scoundrels? Lin Hongwei can only sneer. This lousy courtyard can go to whoever wants it. He's not going to indulge anyone! In the original story of Under the Zhengyang Gate, the clever, capable, and beautiful Chen Xueru is constantly being schemed against? Not on his watch 418Reads5.5Score133Shelves
- 83 Siheyuan: My Sister Was Sold, and I Went on a Killing Spree 四合院：妹妹被卖，我杀疯了 [Siheyuan courtyards + intense murderous aura + decisive and ruthless + spatial ability + System] [Serious warning: timid readers beware! Readers who can't handle a ruthless, brainless takedown of villains, beware!] His younger sister was sold, and his family was destroyed! Lin Han was reborn in 1960 in a Siheyuan courtyard, where he activated the Blood Debt: Find My Kin revenge System. Starting tonight, he would flay those sanctimonious beasts alive and use their blood and bones to honor his si 2.2kReads5.9Score100Shelves
- 84 In the Sixties, I Livestreamed Raising Kids and Became a God 人在六十年代，直播养娃成神 On the winter solstice night of 2025, Li Wei, a father working away from home in Dongguan, was celebrating with his three young children when a strange phenomenon suddenly struck. He transmigrated alone to a run-down courtyard house deep in Beijing's Nanluoguxiang neighborhood in 1960. Before him were grimy brick walls, window paper caked with thick layers of grime, and half a foot of snow piled in the courtyard. The air reeked of coal smoke, pickled vegetables, and age-old mildew. This was no c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 Xu Damao, the Crooked Merchant of the Siheyuan 四合院奸商许大茂 He transmigrates into Xu Damao from Love in the Courtyard and, from the start, binds himself to the underworld’s cross-realm marketplace, the Nether Pavilion! While everyone else is scheming and fighting over steamed corn buns in the courtyard, he turns around and sells them to powerful officials of the underworld, raking in Soul Jade to exchange for a mustard-seed space and treasures for refining souls! An apprentice at the steel mill? Just a cover. He hunts for overlooked antiques at Liulichan 1.8kReads8.0Score101Shelves
- 86 In the Siheyuan, Silly Zhu Calls Me Uncle! 人在四合院，傻柱叫我舅舅！ After unexpectedly arriving in the world of Love in the Courtyard, Mo Xiaoming discovers that he has become Li Zhengquan, Silly Zhu's uncle. "Since I'm here, I might as well make some trouble. It'd be a waste of this incredible stroke of luck otherwise!" Mo Xiaoming quickly accepts the fact that he has transmigrated. "Silly Zhu! I'll change your fate!" Mo Xiaoming stands at the entrance to the courtyard. "You bunch of animals! I'm here!" 2.8kReads6.2Score108Shelves
- 87 Siheyuan: Taking My Little Sister to Find Our Father 四合院：带着妹妹找爹 Not too aggressive + calling people out + scheming Yang Chu is a food delivery driver in 2025. While listening to a novel as he made deliveries, he heard the screech of brakes. When he opened his eyes again... he was in 1955. 24.6kReads7.5Score917Shelves
- 88 Siheyuan: A Hodgepodge of Eras 四合院之年代大杂烩 [Siheyuan] [Security Office] [Feel-Good Novel] [No Qin] Zhang Zhiqiang was doing just fine in the army after transmigrating, but the System forced him to take the position of deputy head of security at a steel mill and move into Siheyuan No. 95, the center of the universe. What's the point of all those schemes by the villains? Money! Well, as it happens, I don't want them to have any. Why is an eighth-grade fitter in debt every month??? Why is a professional chef going hungry all day??? Why is s 19.9kReads6.9Score937Shelves
- 89 Siheyuan: I Married a Big Shot's Granddaughter, and My Life Took Off 四合院，娶大佬孙女，人生腾飞 [No-Brainer] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] [No Frustrating Setbacks] [No Goody-Two-Shoes Hero] [One Female Lead] Zhou Weimin transmigrated into the body of an idiot in a 1959 siheyuan. This absurd start was enough to make the sky fall. His grandfather, the only person he had to rely on, had just died. Then the beasts came to seize his home. Just as he was about to charge in and fight to the death, the Path-Proving System successfully bound itself to him! He punched Jia Dongxu and kicked Jia Zhangsh 6.4kReads6.9Score206Shelves
- 90 Siheyuan: Yan Jiecheng's Story Begins in 1947 四合院：闫解成从1947年开始 The protagonist transmigrates into Yan Jiecheng's body in 1947. These are chaotic times, and everyone is just trying to scrape by and stay alive. What? My dad is Yan the Skinflint? What? I froze to death? What? I have a golden finger? Then we're all set, boys. The good times are coming. 2.5kReads7.1Score9.8kShelves
- 91 Making a Killing Together in the Siheyuan 在四合联手爆金币 Xu Youmao transmigrates as Xu Damao, and He Tiezhu transmigrates as He Yuzhu. In 1951, after He Daqing leaves, they team up to take down the courtyard’s scoundrels and keep raking in rewards. Xu Youmao trades for a luxury yacht in the real world, then tells He Tiezhu enviously, “The thousandfold extraction you bring back every time you return is useful to the country. All I can trade for are things I can enjoy myself.” A new aircraft carrier appears in a secret national port. Xu Damao trades 738Reads6.3Score105Shelves
- 92 Siheyuan: The Factory Doctor Who Stole Huai Ru from the Start 四合院：开局厂医，截胡淮茹 After transmigrating to 1952, Su Yang became the steel mill's only general practitioner and awakened the God-Tier Snatching System. Jia Dongxu wants to go on a blind date with Qin Huairu? Su Yang: “Dongxu, you can't handle her!” Xu Damao wants to marry into a wealthy family? Su Yang: “Damao, you're not up to it physically. I'll be your father-in-law instead!” The courtyard's beasts break down: “So doctors can do whatever they want?!” 1.8kReads7.0Score114Shelves
- 93 Siheyuan: Raising Six Kids, I Take on the Scoundrels 四合院：养六娃的我手撕禽兽 Chen Wenxuan transmigrates to Courtyard No. 95 with the house he lived in during his previous life. His parents are both dead, and six younger siblings are still crying to be fed. But that's okay. The house is well stocked, and its supplies reset every day! He also has a storage space and a spatial ability! In these hard times, eating well is no problem! As for the animals: Yi Zhonghai, the “god of morality”; the stingy, scheming Yan Bugui; the consummate white lotus Qin Huairu; the kitchen-warr 3.4kReads6.2Score128Shelves
- 94 A Leisurely Life After Transmigrating to 1959! 穿越1959的悠闲生活！ [Space] [Hunting] [No dark or violent themes] [Family life] In his previous life, this overworked wage slave spent every night working overtime on construction sites and died at the age of twenty-four. When he woke up, he had somehow transmigrated into 1959... 7.9kReads7.0Score615Shelves
- 95 Seizing the He Family Home and Draining Yi and Jia from the Start 开局霸占何家房子吸干易贾 “Put the beasts in their place” + “No messing around” + “Scheming behind their backs” + “Won’t fawn over anyone” On the day Qin Huairu gave birth to Banggeng, a handcart overturned on the slippery road in the rain. Li Jingxian, who lived in the neighboring compound, was then shaken down by Jia Dongxu and Yi Zhonghai. I lent you my cart out of kindness, and you turn around and bite me? Then let’s fight! The lovesick Silly Zhu smashed up the cart and beat someone, so he was sent straight to prison 24.2kReads8.6Score1.2kShelves
- 96 Siheyuan: The Courtyard's Atmosphere Takes a Turn 四合院：院内风气发生偏移 Wang Chaoqun, an ambitious young man from 2025, arrives in 1953 in the world of Love in the Courtyard. Slacking off, getting promoted, being a spectator, pulling strings behind the scenes, an ordinary life, and low levels of hostility. He trades wits with the courtyard's young people. The residents of the courtyard: “You animals! Every last one of you is an animal!” Watching as the courtyard's tone grows increasingly bizarre, Wang Chaoqun takes it from stabbing the courtyard in the back to steal 50.8kReads6.9Score3kShelves
- 97 For Revenge, I Made All 128 People in the Compound Pay with Their Lives 为复仇，我让全院128人偿命 On New Year’s Eve, Li Jianguo was hounded by everyone in the courtyard until he became a “murderer.” His family was destroyed, and he spent three years in prison, treated like a dog. The courtyard’s scoundrels all laughed, thinking that chapter was closed. But they were wrong. Three years later, Li Jianguo returned. This time, he wasn’t here to reason with anyone. He was here to wipe them off the map. Those who called him a convict back then, he made serve time for real. Those who stole his home 3.5kReads5.4Score109Shelves
- 98 Siheyuan: The Fourteen-Year-Old House Manager 四合院，14岁当上管事大爷 When Lin Feng wakes up, he realizes that he had just dreamed a very long dream. In it, he lived for decades in a future era, only to be struck dead by lightning in the end. After waking up, Lin Feng sees through all the dirty dealings in the courtyard. He deals with anyone who refuses to fall in line, first taking Yi Zhonghai out of the picture, then becoming the courtyard's head steward and its undisputed voice. 63.1kReads8.0Score4.3kShelves
- 99 Siheyuan: I, Silly Zhu, Refuse to Be a Total Sucker 四合院：我傻柱绝不当大冤种 He transmigrates into Silly Zhu in Love in the Courtyard, and it feels like the sky is falling. Fortunately, the original story’s timeline hasn’t started yet, so there’s still time to change everything. You think I’m going to support you in your old age just like in the original story? Dream on! 12.9kReads7.0Score534Shelves
- 100 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 16.1kReads6.2Score632Shelves
