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- 1 Siheyuan: My Name Is Cao Man, Also Known as Meng De 四合院：我叫曹满，也叫孟德 Even though Cao Man had arrived in the poultry-packed courtyard, his Mengde ambitions were still going strong. “Brother Damao, have sister-in-law make me another batch of dumplings. I want to play… eat dumplings.” “Silly Zhu, what the hell are you doing with my sister?!” He Yushui’s whole world came crashing down! “Brother Jiecheng, where’s my sister-in-law Yuli?” “Brother Zhang San, where’s my sister-in-law Yaya?” 128Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: Starting Out as Head Chef at Dongxing Tower 四合院，从东兴楼大厨开始 This book has no violent content. It's a story set in the 1950s and 60s. Zhang Dalong transmigrates to a courtyard house in the early years of the People's Republic, bringing with him a vegetable garden pocket dimension and top-notch culinary skills. He becomes the head chef at Dongxing Restaurant, earning 86.5 yuan a month and living an enviably comfortable life. From the start, the old man shows favoritism when dividing up the family property. His eldest uncle and third uncle get into a huge a 18.2kReads5.7Score498Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: My Dad Is an Army General 四合院：我有个军长老爹 Li Zhenhua transmigrates to 1960 and becomes Li Yunlong's son. From the start, he's caught in a family storm: he refuses to join the army and insists on taking a factory job! His father, Li Yunlong, slams the door in a fury. “My son wants to swing a sledgehammer? What would that do to my reputation!” His mother, Xiuqin, quietly supports him, hoping only that her son can change his fate. After activating the [Pinduoduo Mall System], Li Zhenhua stuns the courtyard house with ten jin of pork belly 2.1kReads6.4Score159Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: From Military Transfer to Department Head 四合院从转业成为科长开始 Reborn into an era of war, twelve-year-old Wang Pengfei accidentally joined the New Fourth Army while fleeing the Japanese invaders' massacres. Since he was educated, knew martial arts, and was quick-witted, the organization sent him to go undercover in Beiping at an early age. But on the eve of Beiping's liberation, Wang Pengfei was forced to flee after a traitor sold him out. By chance, he joined a frontline unit and took part in numerous battles. After the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid 2.1kReads7.0Score105Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: I Win by Coasting on My Technical Skills 四合院：我靠技术躺赢 Lei Erdan had graduated from technical secondary school and was happily waiting at home for a job assignment. While others were captivated by the dramas unfolding in the neighboring Number 95 Courtyard, he was content to enjoy life in his own little Number 97 Courtyard. His father was a top-tier, seventh-grade fitter at the steel mill. His mother was a warmhearted neighborhood office worker. His older sister had married a soldier, and his two younger sisters were little rascals. The family was w 1.8kReads5.4Score180Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: It All Starts When I Refuse to Hold a Courtyard Meeting 四合院从拒开全院大会开始 After Zhou Zhenbei was discharged from the military due to his injuries, he discovered that after his father died, the beasts of the courtyard had started scheming to take his family’s house. Oh, very good. The neighborhood committee director and the steel mill manager, not a single one of them will get away. 21Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 7 A Rich Second-Generation Heir's Cultivation Across Ten Thousand Worlds 富二代万界修行录 Chen Ang, the spoiled son of a wealthy family from Earth, transmigrated to primitive society on a plane. He began as a young shaman of the Rock Tribe, which was on the brink of extinction. He gathered fire, opened spiritual meridians, established totems, and united the myriad tribes, igniting the dawn of civilization through his efforts alone. The blood moon hung in the sky, gods and demons fell into the world, the Heavenly Dao collapsed, and the primordial wilderness returned. The legacy of Go 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Quick Transmigration in the Siheyuan: I'll Do Things My Way 快穿四合院之我行我上 You Dapao, the ultimate keyboard warrior. While squatting on the toilet and reading novels, he curses Silly Zhu for being spineless, Yi Zhonghai for being a scoundrel, Qin Huairu for being a white lotus, and the beasts for being less than human. Then You Dapao boldly declares, “I could do better myself.” His vision goes black, and his soul transmigrates. When he opens his eyes again, Yan Bugui is demanding compensation: “Xu Damao took the chicken soup, and Silly Zhu has to pay another five y 9.5kReads8.2Score496Shelves
- 9 Siheyuan: With the Four Great Guardians in Hand, I Rule the World 四合院手握四大金刚我只手遮天 (Overbearing-protagonist style, original humor, mastermind behind the scenes, low angst, one female lead, handwritten, no AI) Song Qingshu woke up to find that he had four grown nephews. He just so happened to move into a Siheyuan, so since he was there, he might as well stir things up. If it’s a numbers game, I can send all four of my nephews after you. If it’s a fight, I don’t even need to lift a finger. Silly Zhu will take you down. If it’s about connections, I’ve got enough big ideas to crus 22.1kReads7.0Score1.1kShelves
- 10 A Lazybones Makes His Way in the Siheyuan 懒汉从四合院开始闯荡 Courtyard No. 95 was a strange place. Many transmigrators had come and gone, and had loved and hated there. The transmigrators who came here all had their own quirks. As the saying went: the front courtyard produced schemers, the middle courtyard was full of hostility, the back courtyard was a trouble magnet, the east wing had powerful cheats, the west wing had powerful Systems, and the neighboring courtyard was full of spectators. There were also countless reborn people and body snatchers. Afte 10.3kReads6.9Score451Shelves
- 11 Reborn in the Siheyuan: Don't Call Me a Jerk 重生四合院，别叫我缺德 [Mildly abrasive, slice of life, not a saint] Liu Nong, a workplace slacker, transmigrates into a courtyard after a romantic encounter and gets bound to a wicked System. The more wicked things he does, the better the rewards! At a courtyard meeting: Liu Nong: “First, some bad news: I’m moving out tomorrow.” Everyone cries tears of joy. “Liu Nong, we can’t bear to see you go!” They rush to help him pack. Liu Nong waves them off. “Hold on, not yet.” Liu Nong: “Here’s another piece of bad news: I w 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: Resisting America and Aiding Korea from the Start 四合院：开局抗美援朝 On the battlefield of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, he was the “Snow God of War” who made American troops tremble. In the courtyard alleys of the capital, he was the “Living King of Hell,” wielding imperial authority! Chen Mo, decorated with a First-Class Merit, took top-secret military blueprints with him and became the head of security at a steel mill. He had planned to quietly develop the nation's military industry, but the beasts in the courtyard kept throwing themselves i 1.5kReads—Score108Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: Chief of the Political Security Division, Sent by the Higher-Ups to Clean House 四合院：政保科长，上级派我来肃 [Spy Warfare + Siheyuan Courtyard + One Female Lead + Everyone Is Sharp] On a snowy night in 1949, Zhou Weiguo gets to Qin Huairu first and changes the course of their lives! Ten years later, he returns with his wife and is parachuted into the Red Star Steel Mill as head of the security office. To the world, he's a rigid, old-fashioned “good guy.” Behind the scenes, he's an “anti-reactionary agent” armed with a royal warrant! Yi Zhonghai tries to guilt-trip him with moral pressure? Sorry, I foll —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: From Railway Police Officer to a Legendary Life 四合院：从铁路民警到传奇人生 When Chen Yang boarded the green-painted train with a medicine kit on his back, nobody knew that this railway police trainee was actually a transmigrator with the Art of Saving Lives! From the start, he caught human traffickers with ease, only to unexpectedly become the nephew-in-law of the Nine Gates Viceroy. "I'll treat Old Man Guan's tomb-raiding aftereffects with acupuncture, help He Daqing overcome his fear of widows, and change Ma Kui's fate so he avoids ten years in prison!" —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: Their Messy Feuds? What Do I Care? 四合院：禽兽关系乱？管我叼事？ [Entirely handwritten, no AI] + [Doesn't fawn over Qin Huairu or Silly Zhu] + [Fast-paced plot] Su Wen has barely transmigrated when he gets some bad news: to protect himself and fall in line with government policy, Lou Zhenhua has decided to dismiss all the workers living in his household. Come on, it's already the end of 1957! The Great Famine is just a year away! How is Su Wen, an orphan with no family, supposed to survive? That's the question! 51.9kReads6.9Score3.6kShelves
- 16 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
- 17 Siheyuan: Jilted from the Start, I Bring Su Ying Home as My Bride 四合院：开局被悔婚，娶苏樱回家 From the start, Qin Huairu breaks off their engagement? The System activates, and he brings Su Ying from The Legendary Siblings straight home. When it comes to beauty, who can compare to my wife? When it comes to talent, my wife has unmatched medical skills! When it comes to virtue, everyone in the courtyard is scum! Want to take advantage of me? Have you asked my wife? With a golden finger at his side and a beauty in his arms, Zhou Weiguo begins a life of happiness and sweet romance. Meanwhile, 701Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: From the Start in the Northeast, Hunted by the Entire Village 四合院开局在东北被全村追 Li Kai got carried away in the modern world after awakening his spatial ability, and ended up getting killed. He transmigrates back to the 1950s, into the body of a twelve-year-old boy in the countryside of Northeast China. After he happens to dig up a ginseng root, the villagers try to take everything from his family, nearly leaving him to freeze to death. Luckily, Li Kai brought his space with him... Just when he thinks he's dealt with the trouble, a letter from his father completely upends hi 11kReads6.9Score487Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: Slapping the Deaf Old Lady Down from the Start 四合院之开局扇翻老聋子 Xu Damao from 2026 logs into the body of Xu Damao from 1965. See how Brother Damao deals with all the birds in the courtyard. No potty humor, just Brother Damao, a man with no morals, no manners, no vision, and no brains, who lives by one principle: get things done. 3.5kReads6.5Score117Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: In the Year of Great Disaster, I Take Down the Jia Family First 四合院：大灾之年，我先干翻贾家 After transmigrating into the world of the Siheyuan, Zhang Shengli awakens a System. With disasters about to strike, Zhang Shengli only wants to enjoy a peaceful life of his own, but the whole Siheyuan gang tries to guilt-trip him into helping them. Since keeping a low profile is no longer an option, he can only take the whole lot of them down at once. Yi Zhonghai: Shengli, you can inherit my Level Eight fitter job. Two steamed corn buns will do. Jia Dongxu: Shengli, how about Qin Huairu? You ca 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 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
- 22 Siheyuan: I Took Down Silly Zhu from the Start 四合院：开局打废傻柱 Also known as: Courtyard: Taking Revenge on the Bullies in Hong Kong, Becoming a Home Appliance and Entertainment Mogul, and a Chip Tycoon [Has a pocket dimension and clones; beats up the bullies without hesitation; strikes from the shadows and never forgives; later develops his business in Hong Kong] After transmigrating to a Beijing courtyard in 1965, Li Fugui awakens a pocket dimension and the ability to create clones. Once he has prepared his tools, he cripples Silly Zhu's arm and leg that v 1.2kReads6.2Score209Shelves
- 23 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
- 24 Transmigrating into Siheyuan: An Upright Life That Won’t Take the Blame 穿越四合院，正直人生不背锅 The protagonist transmigrates into the courtyard and becomes Lin Zhou, a man with the same name. His parents died when he was young, and he raised his younger sister on his own. He has a steady job at a steel mill. He absolutely refuses to be a pushover!!! He will never be a pushover!!! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 I Snatched Qin Huairu Away, and Now I’m Setting These Beasts Straight 截胡秦淮茹，这届禽兽被我带偏了 [Period setting + storage space + communication between two worlds + poaching Qin Huairu + everyday life + no edgy violence + technical focus + patriotism] Lin Guodong is sent hurtling into 1951 while saving his childhood friend. In this era of hunger and scarcity, he can still keep in touch with his old friend in the future. How could he lose? The Courtyard Is Full of Beasts? Not a chance. Instead of picking fights with everyone and everything, he'll put people skills first. See how Lin Guodong 33.4kReads7.1Score2.9kShelves
- 26 Siheyuan: This Cadre Has a Cheat 四合院：这个干部有外挂 [Not too dark, one heroine, smart characters, sensible plot] As the ancients said: “In books, you will find a beauty; in books, you will find a golden house.” At first, Zhao Weiguo didn't believe it. Then one day, after his golden finger came online, he discovered that books really did contain a golden house, and it was made of pure gold. The only catch was that it was too soft to live in. 4.9kReads7.3Score104Shelves
- 27 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
- 28 Siheyuan: The Rotten System Wrecks the Whole Courtyard 四合院：缺德系统坑惨众禽 This story is full of hostility, full of hostility, full of hostility. Important things bear repeating three times. If you don't like hostility, don't read. Moral blackmail? I'll hit you. And I won't just hit you, I'll ruin you. You play dirty, I'll play dirtier. I'll bring thugs, casinos, and black markets to heel. It's not just about making money, it's about ruining you. Yi Zhonghai, Jia Dongxu, Liu Haizhong, Yan Fugui, I'll make sure every last one of you loses your family and home. 480Reads—Score111Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: Little Jia’s Comeback 四合院：小贾的逆袭 [A little mean-spirited, not a one-woman romance, somewhat invincible, no demonizing characters, and no major changes to the timeline] Chen Xuan transmigrated into a courtyard and took Jia Dongxu’s place on his wedding night. But he wasn’t going to let the courtyard hold him back. Rooted in his era, he carved out a legend of his own. Over the decades, young Jia weathered winds and waves, lived through golden years, and witnessed a magnificent age. He founded Bureau 749 himself, turning it into t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Siheyuan: I Don't Want to Be the Bad Guy Either 四合院：我也不想做坏事啊 [A comedic power fantasy. Check the table of contents, and don’t take it too seriously. Some details may not be 100% accurate to the period. If you don’t like it, please don’t flame the author. Thanks.] Zhou Qing, a modern man, woke up to find himself lying on a rough wooden bed! Looking around at the bare walls and empty room, Zhou Qing was speechless. Who the hell can tell me why, after staying up late to watch Love in the Courtyard, I transmigrated straight into the show?! Luckily, he got a t 276Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: A Family of Loyal Martyrs, Surrounded by Greedy Vultures 四合院：满门忠烈，众禽想吃绝户 Right after transmigrating, I became the only surviving man in the Cao family of the courtyard compound! My father and two brothers all died protecting the steel mill. Their family was full of loyal heroes, and their bodies were barely cold! Yi Zhonghai immediately called a compound-wide meeting, joining forces with the Jia family and Silly Zhu. Under the pretense of “neighbors helping one another,” they tried to force my mother to hand over the two thousand yuan in compensation, seize our famil 4kReads5.4Score213Shelves
- 32 When the Lead Actor Comes to Live in the Siheyuan 当主演到了四合院生活 (The rating starts at 6.1 and will rise later.) Characters who have appeared: He Bing as Sha Zhu, Hai Yitian as Xu Damao, and Hao Lei as Qin Huairu. (Guest appearances: Fang Zige as Liu Haizhong, Wei Xiaojun as Lou Xiaoe.) Characters appearing later: Sha Jingchang as Yi Zhonghai, Li Guangfu as Yan Bugui... (More to be added) 3.1kReads6.6Score175Shelves
- 33 Siheyuan: I Paraded the Ancestor Around the Streets 四合院：我让老祖宗游了街 Gong Tianyou transmigrates to 1964 and becomes Li Si, the hapless man in the courtyard who’s been a pushover for twenty years. The original owner has two younger brothers to look after. They barely have enough to eat, and Yi Zhonghai, the First Master, still has him at his beck and call, paying money and doing all the work. At the New Year’s Day gathering, Yi Zhonghai tells the entire courtyard to kowtow to Deaf Granny and call her their Old Ancestress. Standing against the wall, Li Si presses t 1.6kReads5.7Score103Shelves
- 34 Hello, My Eleventh Book hello第11本书 My new work is out! You can read it 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! 16Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 35 Siheyuan: The Security Chief of the Protection Office 四合院之保卫处治安科长 [Light System story] [Doesn't get involved with Qin, Lou, or Shui, the three major pitfalls] [Moderately heated, so steer clear if that's not your thing] [The author has already written a million-word story in this genre, so you can read with confidence] Feng Zhendong, a man from the future, finishes writing a Siheyuan novel and wakes up to find that his soul has transmigrated into the drama. He goes from an ordinary nobody to a politically reliable head of the Public Security Section. Director 3.2kReads6.2Score143Shelves
- 36 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
- 37 The Courtyard Fool's Smuggling Business 四合院傻柱的倒爷生活 After being reborn, Silly Zhu uses the System he brought with him to outsmart the various animals around him. Of course, this story isn’t violent; it has its tender moments, too. Some characters have been adjusted as needed. Given a second life, there’s more to it than trivial everyday affairs: he also takes on a responsibility, eventually leading the Dragon Kingdom to the pinnacle of the world. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: The Yi Family’s Eldest Son Rises Step by Step 四合院：易家长子，步部高升 In the pouring rain on a dark night in 1936, a pair of abandoned infants lie at the entrance to a courtyard house. Three-month-old Yi Hu, a transmigrator, follows his instinct to survive and crawls step by step to the home of Yi Zhonghai, the First Master. The moment the door opens, his fate is changed forever. Amid the everyday warmth and conflicts of the courtyard, Yi Hu never forgets what it felt like to fight for his life in a desperate situation. He refuses to waste his time on pointless sq 20.5kReads7.4Score1.2kShelves
- 39 In This Life, I Only Want to Live for Myself 这一世，我只想为自己而活 Zhang Jun was an old man who had served in the military, fought in wars, worked as a police officer, and arrested hooligans. Over the course of his life, he lost the love of his life and his family, and failed to fulfill his fallen comrades' last wishes. He spent his life alone. After an accident, he was reborn in the year his life began. He had no golden finger, no superpowers, no portable space, and no powerful connections. All he had were the memories of his previous life. Cautiously feeling 1.9kReads8.0Score135Shelves
- 40 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
- 41 Siheyuan: A Level Six Engineer from the Start 四合院：开局六级工程师 Transmigrated into a parallel world before birth, Lin Yi returned to China with a doctorate from the Soviet Union. A senior leader personally saw him off to the steel mill, where he took up the post of head of the R&D team with the benefits of a Level Six Engineer. To quietly help build the nation, Lin Yi first had to deal with the pack of miscreants in the courtyard. Everyone says that Jia Zhangshi calls the shots when it comes to the courtyard's chaos. But Yi Zhonghai, Jia Zhangshi's backer, i 9.1kReads6.2Score295Shelves
- 42 Experiencing Life’s Finest Moments, Starting in the Siheyuan 从四合院开始历人间芳华 This is a story about traveling through different eras in search of youthful romance. The stories don't follow any set plot, and the courtyard section is a little slow-paced. The later stories about the jungles of Vietnam and Shanghai are more exciting~~~ Fans of plot-driven stories, please don't flame me. Thanks. 418Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 43 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 636Reads6.3Score114Shelves
- 44 Siheyuan: Soul Transmigration in 1951, Happiness for the He Family 四合院：魂穿51之何家幸福 The story of the Siheyuan begins again! [System]+ [Multiple storylines merged]+ [Family life]+ [Siheyuan] He Yulong, a fine young man from the 21st century, transmigrates into Silly Zhu in 1951. From the start, he's on a train back to Beijing. Beside him, He Yushui wipes away her tears, grieving over their father's departure. But as soon as they get home, the Jia family steals their things. Should he swallow his anger or give them a taste of their own medicine? Watch how He Yuzhu unleashes the p 19.2kReads7.3Score943Shelves
- 45 After Unifying Siheyuan, You Invade a Parallel World 一统四合院后，你又入侵平行世界 I’d just died suddenly from overwork when I was recruited into the ranks of the immortals and dropped into the full-of-beasts courtyard from the start. My boss’s first beginner assignment was to steal the underwear of Xu Damao, a reborn man, and hang it outside the door of the hypocritical First Master? Me, Gu Ping’an, a burned-out office worker who just wants to lie flat, forced into becoming an outlaw who specializes in low-down tricks! Every beast in the courtyard has a cheat! Xu Damao has re 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Thriving in the World of the Siheyuan 我在四合院的世界，如鱼得水 The protagonist has twisted values, no boundaries, and no humanity. This may be disturbing, so read with caution. The story has relatively little to do with the courtyard house. A soul from the 21st century travels into a 1960s courtyard house. With a “Connections Network” System that can bind key people to him, he thrives in an era of scarce goods, navigating social relationships as he quietly weaves a life of his own. Follows the TV version, no major changes. The protagonist is not a good per 2.3kReads8.8Score114Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: I Live at Courtyard No. 96 四合院：家住96号院 Wang Yu transmigrates into the body of a vocational school student about to graduate. He lives in a private courtyard at No. 96 Nanluoguxiang. His parents were engineers who were killed by enemy agents while protecting classified documents. They were posthumously honored as martyrs. He finishes school with the help of compensation payments and the family’s savings. After graduating from vocational school, the authorities arrange for him to become the state-appointed manager of a pastry shop run 380Reads5.4Score240Shelves
- 48 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—Score101Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: Building a Family Legacy 四合院：打造传承家族 His father is missing in action on the battlefield in Korea, while the scheming neighbors covet the Lin family's property. Lin Chuan returns with the legacy of a hundred lifetimes and the fury of thunder, tearing off the hypocritical masks of the courtyard residents and shattering the rules of the “civilized courtyard.” He passes on knowledge to his family. The eldest brother wields the truth! The second brother uses his medical skills to build a network of connections. The third Lin brother lur 594Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 50 Siheyuan: The Beasts Died Too Soon 四合院：禽兽死早了 This is a completely different kind of Four-House-Courtyard novel from the ones you’ve read before. The male lead, Wang Hua, inherits the legacy of the Great World of the God of Cookery. With no memories of the courtyard and as an outsider, he faces assassination attempts and provocations from Deaf Granny, Yi Zhonghai, and the others. Unable to take it any longer, he strikes back against these scoundrels. There’s no drawn-out back-and-forth or dragging things out. The story doesn’t stop until De 12.9kReads5.9Score408Shelves
