Novels like From the Start: I, Silly Zhu, Move Out of the Courtyard
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- 51 Siheyuan: I Transmigrated While Watching My Former Self Get Beaten 四合院：看着前身被打我穿了 Peng Xinglong, who worked himself to death in the 21st century, has his soul transmigrate into the beast-filled Siheyuan and is completely stunned! What? I really get to live again! But these neighbors are anything but friendly. "Outsmart the whole courtyard of troublemakers, kick Xu Damao, punch He Yuzhu, turn the First Master’s own moral blackmail against him, slap Jia Zhangshi until she cries, and send that little white-eyed wolf off for reform." No! That's not what I want. I just want to liv 1.1kReads7.6Score—14d adds
- 52 Siheyuan: How Did This Returnee from Studying Abroad Turn So Wicked? 四合院：这留学回来的心咋这么黑 [No System] [Slow-paced] [Everyday Life] [Lighthearted and Funny] Before he transmigrated, Chen Weiguo was a miserable coding grunt. He made a couple of snarky comments about the plot of Love in the Courtyard, and then actually wound up inside it. At first, he thought he'd come to set the courtyard house in order. Then he realized: did this dump even need him to fix it? He only had to stir things up a little, and the place went crazier than anywhere else. Silly Zhu: Is Chen Weiguo even better —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Siheyuan: A Tiny Courtyard Across the Heavens, Come If You Dare 四合院：诸天小破院，有胆你就来 He woke up one morning to find himself as He Yuzhu, the biggest sucker in the courtyard. Luckily, time had not run out, and things weren’t beyond saving yet. He Daqing had only just run off, so there was still a chance to set many things right. Taking advantage of his morning temper, he beat up the moral paragon Yi Zhonghai, only to discover that there was more to this courtyard than met the eye. After all, where had the original courtyard gotten its east and west wings? And now there were three 15.3kReads7.0Score65014d adds
- 54 Siheyuan: Building a Safe Haven 四合院：打造避风港 A courtyard drama + special abilities + heroine + everyday life. Nie Hao transmigrates and awakens memories of his past life from the start. A war hero moves into the rear building, and his System and special abilities arrive late but right on time, letting him dive straight into the fun. It's an everyday-life story with a slower plot. Jia Dongxu is going on a blind date? Dongxu, you can't handle this. I'll head to Changping first. He catches an enemy spy, and Chen Xueru won't leave him alone? W 622Reads6.3Score11114d adds
- 55 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Starts Out Taking Advantage of a Widow's Household 四合院，何雨柱开局吃绝户 After his death, the elderly Sha Zhu learns that everything was nothing but a scheme. Drifting for a hundred years as a spirit, he has become far more worldly than the illiterate fool he once was. The System sends him back to another timeline, to the day after Jia Dongxu's death in 1962. From the start, he swindles Yi Zhonghai out of a hundred yuan, collecting a little interest from the household without an heir before turning his attention to revenge against the whole flock of animals. Only aft 9.6kReads7.2Score41614d adds
- 56 Silly Zhu's Redemption, 1958 傻柱的自我救赎1958 My name is Silly Zhu, formally He Yuzhu. Thanks to the praise of internet users in the future, I am honored as the “God of War of the Siheyuan”! I also have such flattering nicknames as “The Most Devoted Simp in Nanluoguxiang” and “Widow Ender.” Opinions of me among future netizens are sharply divided. Some think I was a beast, lusting after widows. I sacrificed everything for the Jia family and the retirement group, only to freeze to death beneath a bridge and be torn apart by wild dogs. They s 7kReads6.7Score34614d adds
- 57 Siheyuan: The Veterinarian Treats Yi Zhonghai from the Start 四合院：兽医开局给易中海看病 [Twins] + [Fierce Siheyuan] + [Bang Geng's father is Yi Zhonghai?] + [Xu Damao is from Sichuan Province?] + [Silly Zhu becomes Jia Dongxu's father?]... Xu Liang transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan and awakens a daily settlement System. Just then, he comes across Yi Zhonghai collapsed on the ground. As a veterinarian, how could he stand by and let an animal fall in front of him? So Xu Liang saves Yi Zhonghai... After waking up, Yi Zhonghai soon discovers that the Siheyuan has changed. It 224Reads—Score10414d adds
- 58 Siheyuan: Blind Dates Make You Stronger 四合院：相亲就变强 [No saintly heroine] [Cooking-focused] [Plenty of everyday life] [Putting Yi Jia in his place] [Leisurely pace] [Don’t read if you dislike it] He is accidentally reborn as He Yuzhu, only to find that He Daqing has run off, leaving him and little Yushui behind. He Yuzhu goes straight to the police and arranges for Yushui to be returned to He Daqing, so she can enjoy the fatherly love she never had in her previous life and stop dragging her brother down! Back at the courtyard, he sees a family arr 19.8kReads7.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 59 Reborn in a Siheyuan, I, He Yuzhu, Won't Be Anyone's Beast of Burden 重生四合院我何雨柱不做牛马 A new work in the genres of Courtyard Drama, Reborn, and Animal Abuse is now available. You’re welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! After He Yuzhu was thrown out of his home, he froze to death beneath a bridge in the outskirts. He witnessed Xu Damao collecting his body and recounting what had happened. Then, for some inexplicable reason, he was reborn. In this life, I, He Yuzhu, will no 13.2kReads6.9Score53214d adds
- 60 Siheyuan: Buying the East Wing from the Start in 1948 四合院：1948开局买下东厢房 After a stroke of good fortune, a modern actuary transmigrates into the courtyard when He Yuzhu is thirteen. Watch him scrape by in that era without moving out of the courtyard, naturally settle into life, and enjoy a comfortable existence in a time of scarcity. This follows the TV adaptation: keeping your head down is the norm, and revenge is never done openly! It's a different kind of courtyard story, so feel free to give it a look. The thrills aren't as intense as you might expect, but this t 21.7kReads5.9Score64214d adds
- 61 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! 903Reads6.5Score10314d adds
- 62 Siheyuan: Whoever Wants to Live Here Can Have It 四合院之这院子谁爱住谁住 After racking his brains to cobble together a load of nonsense, a nobody web novelist finally hit 100,000 words. Fortunately, he was no longer writing to an audience of zero. Unfortunately, everything went black, and when he woke up, he found that his dream had actually come true! In the courtyard fanfiction he wrote, he was always bragging, “If I transmigrated as Silly Zhu, what would I do? Could that bunch of scoundrels in the courtyard really beat me?” They say you get smacked for running you 4.6kReads5.6Score19314d adds
- 63 Siheyuan: The Electrician's Eventful Years 四合院：电工的峥嵘岁月 He transmigrates to a courtyard compound in 1960 and becomes an electrician for the neighborhood office. With a technology-focused System to boot, things get interesting from the start! Watch as the protagonist tries to live like a normal person in a courtyard compound that online readers have demonized beyond recognition. Low-key and cautious, with a focus on technology and everyday life, realistic paths to prosperity, family drama and petty squabbles, changing times, a warm family, and just th 48Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 64 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu at 16 in 1944 四合院：1944少年何雨柱 After transmigrating into the role of a young Silly Zhu in a period drama, he finds himself in a world that includes not only Love in the Courtyard, but also A Little Woman at Zhengyang Gate. See how I change my fate and alter the course of the story. 131Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 65 Siheyuan: Changing He Yuzhu's Life 四合院：改变何雨柱人生 In a Beijing Siheyuan where warmth and coldness in human relationships intertwine, Silly Zhu, He Yuzhu, is a righteous cook who is constantly taken advantage of. For the sake of getting along with his neighbors, he gives them everything, yet keeps getting the short end of the stick. His life is trapped in petty squabbles and suffocating debts of gratitude. But this time, after He Dazhu transmigrates into He Yuzhu, he unexpectedly awakens and sees through the selfish schemes of certain people in 2.8kReads7.0Score10414d adds
- 66 Reborn in 1943: I Build a Life of Power by Fighting the Invaders 重生43，从杀鬼子开始制霸人生 [A little ruthless, a little scheming] [Revenge] [Nearly invincible] [Decisive and ruthless] [No saintly do-gooder] After nine cycles of reincarnation across the Zhoutian Universe, He Yuzhu still chooses to abandon all his cultivation and power and be reborn into a new life, even when Celestial Venerable Taizai announces that he is the Grand Elder of the Space Divine Hall. He has only one goal: to reclaim everything he lost. From the moment he is reborn, there is no Silly Zhu in this world, only 1.1kReads6.9Score10314d adds
- 67 Siheyuan: A Maoshan Disciple Slaughters Every Beast 四合院：茅山弟子杀光禽兽 [Heavily Altered] [Intense Hostility in the Early Chapters] [Parallel Universe] [Entirely Reimagined] [Maoshan System] [Death List] [Ghosts and Gods] [Do Not Read If This Bothers You] Lin Feng, a Maoshan disciple, transmigrated into a courtyard house. His father had disappeared, his mother had been murdered, his job had been suspended, and the entire compound was full of villains. Lin Feng had only one day to live after transmigrating into the courtyard house. He had to use Maoshan techniques to 1.2kReads6.4Score10614d adds
- 68 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 1.8kReads8.0Score10114d adds
- 69 Siheyuan: Reborn as He Yuzhu, Defying Fate! 四合院：重生何雨柱，逆天改命！ He transmigrates by accident into the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming the hapless He Yuzhu. Fortunately, he arrives early, in the winter of 1950. This is also the year He Yuzhu and his sister are abandoned by their father. He Yuzhu is fifteen, and He Yushui is five. This is also the year He Yuzhu starts out as an apprentice. But this time, he is no longer the chef Silly Zhu from the original story. Instead, He Yuzhu takes a very different path, sitting for China's first college entrance —Reads—Score2.8k14d adds
- 70 In the Siheyuan, Jia Dongxu Defies Fate and Becomes a Police Officer 四合院之贾东旭逆天改命当警 Jia Dongxu, a post-90s veteran, transmigrates back to 1941 with a System. He has barely arrived when he finds himself near the battlefield. From the start, he crushes a major general to death and stabs a lieutenant colonel, only to realize that he's ended up in a shared film-and-TV universe, full of names that are both familiar and unfamiliar, and even has an uncle here. Jia Dongxu then settles into the daily routine of killing Japanese soldiers and catching spies, because his System rewards goo 299Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Siheyuan: A Happy Life That Begins in the Kitchen 四合院：从厨师开始的美满生活 Beijing, 1962. Li Qiang, executive chef at a five-star hotel, has been single for thirty-eight years. His death is absurd: he walks past a farmers' market and gets buried alive under a truckload of cabbages after a landslide. He opens his eyes to find himself reborn as a newly qualified apprentice cook in Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. The plaster is crumbling off the walls, he has 31.5 yuan in his pocket, and the courtyard's First Uncle, full of talk about benevolence and morality, is s 1.7kReads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Reborn in Siheyuan: The Yi Family’s Adopted Son 重生四合院之易家养子 In his previous life, Chen Yan was a brilliant engineer in the twenty-first century, framed by others and wrongly imprisoned until he died. When he opened his eyes, he had been reborn in 1950 as the nephew recently adopted by Yi Zhonghai, an eighth-grade fitter, in a courtyard house on Nanluoguxiang in Beijing. He had been utterly alone in his previous life. Now, looking at the “First Master” before him, a man who seemed lonely because he had no children, Chen Yan felt a powerful urge to make up 165Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 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 2kReads5.5Score10314d adds
- 74 Reborn as Silly Zhu in the Siheyuan, Only to Find Myself in The Outcast? 穿成四合院傻柱，竟是一人之下？ After his soul transmigrates into Silly Zhu, he arrives in the Siheyuan, thinking he might spend this life as a cook, struggling to get along with the courtyard’s beasts. But then he realizes something is off about this place! The beasts can cultivate qi! He awakens a System and discovers that it even provides him with a wife! Oh my! It’s Feng Baobao! 957Reads6.0Score10314d adds
- 75 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 4.6kReads7.1Score13214d adds
- 76 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Awakens and Stops Raising Ungrateful Wolves 四合院傻柱觉醒不养白眼狼 He transmigrates as Silly Zhu and sees through the whole courtyard: everyone there is an ungrateful parasite who would devour you without blinking. In his previous life, he gave them everything, supported the whole courtyard, and even raised an ungrateful sister who leeched off him, only to end up alone and miserable. In this life, Silly Zhu has finally woken up. No one is going to guilt-trip him or take advantage of him! He won’t fawn over Qin Huairu, indulge Jia Zhangshi, or save Banggeng. He 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Siheyuan: I Have a Supply and Marketing Cooperative 四合院：我有一座供销社 My new novel is The Courtyard: I Start as Silly Zhu’s Training Partner. If you’re interested, please check it out. I’m begging you!!! [System]+ [Daily Life]+ [Abundant Supplies] In 1957, supplies are scarce and ration coupons rule everything. Chen Yan transmigrates into this era and is daunted by life in a courtyard with nothing to its name. [Ding! Global Supply and Marketing Cooperative System successfully bound! Host: Chen Yan.] [System mission: Run the Nanluoguxiang Supply and Marketing Coope 8.4kReads7.3Score43214d adds
- 78 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. 2.5kReads7.1Score9.8k14d adds
- 79 Siheyuan: Strength Works Wonders 四合院：大力出奇迹 No vicious, blood-soaked slaughter here, just lighthearted entertainment. Want to lie flat? Yang Dali won’t let everyone slack off. If he wants to open a box now and then, the whole flock of troublemakers has to stir up trouble! Aside from his cheerful interactions with the troublemakers, there’s not much to do in this dull era, so he has to keep finding ways to amuse himself. Along the way, he also becomes a master of many trades to earn foreign currency. 1.3kReads5.8Score—14d adds
- 80 Siheyuan: First, I Marry Off Mrs. Jia from the Start 四合院，开局先把贾张氏嫁出去 What should Jia Dongxu do after transmigrating to 1945? Don't panic. First, marry Jia Zhangshi off. Then have He Daqing help Yi Zhonghai father a child. A story of genuine affection in Love in the Courtyard. This blurb doesn't do it justice, so read the novel itself. 1.7kReads7.2Score11414d adds
- 81 Siheyuan: My Family Is Ruined? The Beasts Can All Join Them in the Grave 四合院：家破人亡？禽兽都去陪葬 [Siheyuan courtyard drama + ruthless and decisive + no beating around the bush + no drawn-out drama + tormenting the beasts] [If you like satisfying stories, come on in. He's gearing up to become a crime boss. No bleeding heart here!!!] More than a dozen families live in the courtyard, and every last one of them is a beast who would eat you alive without spitting out the bones. His father was killed in a workplace accident, his mother was poisoned to death, and his sister was sold off by the bea 6.8kReads6.0Score35114d adds
- 82 Siheyuan: From the Start, Xiao'e Paid Me 300 Yuan 四合院，开局就被晓娥付费三百块 Gao Yang was a rare breath of fresh air: upright and generous. Whenever he heard Xu Damao was heading to the countryside to screen films, he would ask Xu Damao to buy medicinal herbs for the medical department. Although buying them always cost Xu Damao two extra days, Gao Yang paid him ten yuan each time. 7.8kReads7.0Score40514d adds
- 83 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Turn the Jia Family’s Funeral into a Spectacle 四合院，开局给贾家葬礼上强度 In 2005, Silly Zhu is eighty years old. Just after transferring ownership of the courtyard to Bang Geng, he's thrown out of his home. He freezes to death beneath a bridge, and wild dogs gnaw at his corpse. In his final moments, he sees Xu Damao chase off the dogs and make arrangements for his funeral. Unable to accept his fate, he is reborn at Jia Dongxu's funeral in 1961. Using memories from his previous life, he drowns Bang Geng in a cesspit that very day. 1kReads—Score10314d adds
- 84 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Go on a Killing Spree and Seize Immortality in the Courtyard 四合院：开局杀疯我在院里夺长生 [Transmigration] + [Multiple Women] + [Ruthlessness] + [System] Read with confidence. It gets amazing later. If it doesn't, you can hit me! Zhao Zheng transmigrates to a courtyard house in 1963. In his previous life, he was ruthless and cruel. In this life, he only wants to live quietly, but some people just keep asking for trouble. The whole courtyard begs him for forgiveness. But after he kills his first person, he discovers that the System rewards him with extra years of life. And so... 201.5kReads8.3Score18.9k14d adds
- 85 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 7kReads8.0Score14714d adds
- 86 All Illusions Return to Truth: Whatever I Imagine Becomes Real! 万虚归真：我想即为真！ Xiao Shiyi’s life seems to hit rock bottom overnight. His girlfriend drains him with her endless demands, and he even takes out online loans to satisfy her, only to get dumped in the end. She can’t even get his name right. When debt collectors show up and beat him, he struggles on the brink of death, only to unexpectedly unlock the Divine Treasure and awaken the supernatural ability “Return All Illusions to Truth.” It can turn false things into real ones. By mistake, he transforms a dollar-store 249Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Siheyuan: I Won’t Be Silly Zhu! 四合院：我不当傻柱！ [Changing the plot + multiple dramas and films + System] What? I choked to death on cola and transmigrated into Silly Zhu, the fool everyone takes advantage of? Whoever wants this lousy role can have it! Qin Huairu plays the victim to beg for food? I'll show her the door! Yi Zhonghai tries to guilt-trip me? I'll flip the table and fight back! He Yuzhu is no Silly Zhu! Watch him climb, one step at a time, to the peak of life! The full story is even better! Read it and see! 6.1kReads5.5Score24914d adds
- 88 Siheyuan: A Tiny Mayfly 四合院之一粒蜉蝣 By chance, Wang Yang found himself in the famous courtyard of the Myriad Worlds. He didn’t break down or complain. Perhaps Heaven had brought him to this misunderstood Stone Age world so that he could walk the road his predecessors had traveled all over again. 22.3kReads7.1Score1k14d adds
- 89 Siheyuan: Reborn in 1952 四合院，傻柱重生1952 The male lead unexpectedly awakens memories of his past life and learns that he used to be Sha Zhu. After waking up, he finds himself back in 1952, when Sha Zhu is at his lowest point. See how the male lead changes the lives of everyone in the courtyard! 40.2kReads8.3Score3.7k14d adds
- 90 Siheyuan: He Daqing and His Wife Travel Between Two Worlds 四合院：双穿何大清夫妇 An accident sends a middle-aged couple of overworked wage slaves, both retired early, to transmigrate into a parallel world of Love in the Courtyard. [Slice of Life] [Normal People] [No Hostility] [No Bathroom Humor] 2.5kReads6.0Score10514d adds
- 91 Siheyuan: I Woke Up as Silly Zhu 四合院：起床发现自己成了傻柱 [Buddhist-minded male lead] + [one female lead] + [bystanders watching the drama] + [excellent cooking] + [no hoarding a courtyard house] + [no going to Hong Kong] + [no collecting antiques] He Tianci, a university student in the 21st century, transmigrates into He Yuzhu in the early 1950s, during the fiery era. He marries his master's daughter, Luo Yanran, and they have several adorable children. He changes Silly Zhu's life, relying on the cooking skills he learned with the help of his golden f 6.1kReads6.0Score16014d adds
- 92 The Many Faces of He Yuzhu 百变何雨柱 A courtyard story about ordinary people. The protagonist has an incredible power: with energy from a Rubik's Cube, his T-1000 can take on countless forms. This isn't some lofty, highbrow story. The protagonist takes over another body and is reborn. He won't meddle with the causes and consequences of things Silly Zhu never did. He just wants to enjoy life with an ordinary man's outlook. 193Reads7.1Score2314d adds
- 93 Siheyuan: Reborn as Silly Zhu, the Ultimate Schemer 四合院：重生傻柱，终极老六 "Bang, bang, bang!" "Silly Zhu, get up! It's time for the meeting! Why is your door still shut?" "All right!" Half asleep, He Yuzhu heard Yi Zhonghai banging on his door. He answered irritably and sat up in bed. He rubbed his tired eyes and looked at the sunlight outside the window, only then realizing that it was already evening. He had slept through quite a long nap. He washed his face, gulped down a glass of cold water to stave off his hunger, then carried a small stool out of the house. He t 34.4kReads6.9Score2k14d adds
- 94 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! 11.8kReads7.0Score50714d adds
- 95 Siheyuan: After the Second Run, Everyone Is a Transmigrator 四合院：二周目后都是穿越者 This book is divided into three volumes. The first tells a clichéd transmigration story. Although He Yuzhu is the protagonist, the System seems to have an ulterior motive. The second is about starting the cycle over, as one reborn person after another, transmigrators, and people who can travel freely along the timeline transform the courtyard beyond recognition. In the third, characters from the first two volumes all meet, and the System reveals its ultimate purpose, which is... 5.9kReads7.4Score21714d adds
- 96 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. 26.7kReads7.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 97 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 12kReads5.9Score38914d adds
- 98 Siheyuan: Stirring Up Trouble in Secret 四合院：暗中搞事情 Not too much aggression + calling people out + cunning. Not a wish-fulfillment story One morning, I step once more into the dusty old lane, And sleep in a quiet courtyard, unknown to all. Before others, I lower my gaze and hide my schemes, While in secret, I stir up waves and roil the years. The deaf old woman's idle gossip, I see right through, The beasts' greedy plots, I expose them all. Do not think someone humble has no influence, A mere flick of my hand can ruffle the immortals' world. 85.8kReads7.7Score5.8k14d adds
- 99 Reborn in 1960: The Siheyuan's Favorite Big Brother 重生60在四合院当孩子王 A friendly reminder: This book focuses on everyday life, with little scheming or intrigue. If that's not your thing, feel free to move along. Thanks! Liu Guanghong was an ordinary college graduate who got into a major accident while delivering food and transmigrated to the 1960s, a world based on a TV drama. There, he became Liu Haizhong's previously nonexistent younger son, completing the Liu family's auspicious trio of “fortune, prosperity, and longevity.” A week after being reborn, he discove 9kReads6.0Score48214d adds
- 100 Siheyuan: It All Starts When Yi Zhonghai Changes Gender! 四合院：从性转易中海开始！ [Mischief Lover] + [Invincible] + [Funny] + [Absurd] + [Do Whatever You Want] + [Immortal] + [Peak of All Creation] I’ve transmigrated! I’ve got a cheat too! Play it safe? What the hell for! I’m an immortal! I go wherever I want and do whatever I want! The courtyard house? Just a toy! Watch me do whatever I want… Then I’ll head to those other countries where life’s pretty good and do whatever I want there too… 334Reads5.4Score1614d adds
