Novels like Reborn in the Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Unconventional Life
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- 101 Siheyuan: They Force Me to Marry a Widow, So I Take on the Whole Courtyard from the Start 四合院：逼我娶寡妇，开局怼全院 [Reborn + System + Dad Life + Over-the-Top Humor + Wild Reimagining] Li Dongliang is reborn in a Beijing courtyard house and finds himself with an adorable daughter. He never expected all the neighbors in the courtyard to try to force him to marry Qin Huairu, the widow! What respectable man would marry a widow?! Shameless! Anyone who tries to talk me into it is getting a tongue-lashing!! (The first 500,000 words take place in the courtyard. After that, the protagonist takes h 4kReads6.8Score10414d adds
- 102 Siheyuan: I Snatch Qin Huairu as My Wife from the Start 四合院：开局截胡秦淮茹当媳妇 [Multiple heroines + period setting + lighthearted + everyday life + low on angst] Wang Jianshe transmigrates to 1952, and as soon as he arrives, he spots Qin Huairu heading over to meet Jia Dongxu on a blind date. Good news: Qin Huairu really does look like the Thirteenth Aunt. Even better news: The Thirteenth Aunt has her eye on me, and accepting the System now comes with a starter pack. So should I accept, or accept, or accept? What a tough choice! What a tough choice! 810Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 Siheyuan: Jia Zhangshi Knocks Out the Deaf Old Lady from the Start 四合院贾张氏开局熏晕聋老太 In 1955, Qin Feng transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, only to have Jia Zhangshi demand that he switch apartments as soon as he arrived. The first task the System dropped on him was to punish Jia Zhangshi. 7Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 104 Siheyuan: Xu Damao Refuses to Die Childless 四合院之许大茂不当绝户 Xu Damao, a modern single young man, has an accident and transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard, where he gets a more children, more blessings System. The System is a bit unscrupulous, forcing him to be a bad guy. It’s just so satisfying. 4.1kReads8.3Score16314d adds
- 105 Siheyuan: I’m a Professional Spectator 四合院：看热闹我是专业的 [Multiple heroines + period setting + lighthearted + everyday life + low on hostility] In his previous life, Wang Jianshe was a fun-loving guy who always rushed toward any excitement, even if it was just a like on someone’s social media post. In this life, he transmigrates to the full-of-fun world of "The Birds Full of the Courtyard". Now, this is the place to be! It’s nothing but fun... 152Reads—Score1114d adds
- 106 Siheyuan: Xu Damao Is Reborn and Ready to Gossip 四合院：许大茂重生要吃瓜 [A heavily reworked version of Love in the Courtyard. Ages and timeline may differ from the original, and the plot has also been changed somewhat, so please don’t get too hung up on the details. This story has one heroine, and the characters don’t go around insulting everyone. If that’s not your thing, read with caution.] In a vast, empty space, Xu Damao stared blankly at the pages of Love in the Courtyard flipping over and over before him. Was he a villain? Selfish and self-serving? A hypocrite 1.1kReads6.9Score—14d adds
- 107 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Beat Jia Dongxu Senseless with Military Boxing 四合院：开局军体拳暴打贾东旭 (A period piece and fan fiction, with no System. It has some edge, but not too much, and follows a nation-strengthening path.) In 1962, Lin Xi, a demobilized medic, has his soul transmigrate into Love in the Courtyard. He reports Jia Dongxu to the police, who arrest him, and Jia dies in prison. He reports the old deaf lady as an enemy agent. He takes out Second Master Liu Haizhong's precious jewels. He sends First Master Yi Zhonghai off to sleep under a bridge. He turns Banggeng into a eunuch. . 3.5kReads6.0Score11114d adds
- 108 Diary of Life in Siheyuan No. 95 95号四合院生活日记 Zhang Lin's soul transmigrated into the body of a rootless village rascal from Zhangjia Village in 1953. No pocket dimension, no System, no special abilities. His only advantage was having read all kinds of stories about life in a Beijing courtyard, so he had a rough idea of China's history after its founding. As for the systematic education he'd received over a decade later, he couldn't see how it would help him just yet. Follow our protagonist as he enjoys an authentic life in the 1950s. 3.1kReads7.1Score—14d adds
- 109 In the Siheyuan, I Can Synthesize Without Limit 四合院我能无限合成 [System] [Space] [One Female Lead] [No Sycophancy, No Kneeling] [Cross Me and I’ll Get Revenge + Fresh Approach] No groveling, no stabbing, no womanizing. Enter at your own risk. A freak lightning accident gives him a game plugin, which mutates into a System and becomes his golden finger! He goes from having nothing to possessing everything, and one day he will return to the modern world of 2025... 18kReads5.8Score1.4k14d adds
- 110 Siheyuan: The Male Gynecologist Who Built His Fortune Helping Couples Conceive 四合院：妇科男医，我靠送子发家 164Reads6.1Score14214d adds
- 111 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!" 2.9kReads6.2Score10814d adds
- 112 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Set Up Bang Geng 四合院，开局坑了棒梗 Chen Xuan blinks and finds himself back in the 1960s. Wait, is this actually the world of The Bustling Courtyard? Widow Qin, we're not right for each other. Could you pay back the money you owe? What do you mean Banggeng is still young? He's old enough to steal chickens. Why let him get away with it? You have it hard? Who in this world doesn't? Chen Xuan looks at the jade pendant hanging around his neck. Who would have thought that a trinket he'd casually bought at a roadside stall, which looked 2.7kReads6.1Score16114d adds
- 113 Siheyuan: He Daqing Wants to Run, So I Send Him to a Labor Camp 四合院：何大清想跑路，送他劳改 “He Daqing, this house belonged to my mother. What does it have to do with you?” “Yi Zhonghai, Jia Dongxu is actually your son!” Reborn as Silly Zhu, he finds He Daqing trying to run off with the money? One swing of a carrying pole will teach him a lesson! Qin Huairu isn't married yet! Then of course I'll get to her first! Don't worry, Jia Dongxu. I'll find you a “good” wife! Xu Damao, don't run! I'll make sure you get a wife, too!! (Multiple stories + an unbeatable protagonist! Easy to enjoy ev 1.6kReads—Score10014d adds
- 114 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Carnival 四合院，许大茂的嘉年华 Xu Huimao learned to cook at Lanhai Technical School. After months of tossing a wok, he learned to make quite a few dishes. Seeing others repair machine tools and drive excavators, he thought learning machinery repair sounded good too... In the end, he went through every course at Lanhai Technical School. With a smattering of eighteen different skills and mastery of none, Xu Huimao somehow carved out a place for himself, building a real estate business that became the second-largest in the provi 1.9kReads8.1Score10514d adds
- 115 Siheyuan: He Shen Becomes Silly Zhu 四合院之和珅变傻柱 After He Shen took his own life, he was cast into a story set in the Siheyuan. In the underworld, he had amassed a fortune by bribing his way onto the Yellow Springs Road for his wife. The story begins just before He Daqing is about to leave with Widow Bai! It's 1950, and he's returned to the age of fifteen. How will Lord He handle a new life in this new instance? 9.6kReads8.7Score75614d adds
- 116 Siheyuan: I Transmigrate into Xu Damao 四合院之穿越成许大茂 [No more swallowing insults, feel-good revenge, putting the pests in their place, making money, farming, multiple female leads] Reborn as Xu Damao, he breaks Silly Zhu’s arm from the start. Silly Zhu, the fool in this nest of beasts, is dead! See how the pests of the courtyard keep stirring up trouble! 10.4kReads5.6Score61114d adds
- 117 Siheyuan: A Song of Loyalty to the Nation Shook the Entire Factory 四合院：一首精忠报国震撼全厂 No brutality, and no excessive bloodlust. His relationship with Granny Deaf starts out good and turns bad, while his relationship with Silly Zhu goes from bad to good. The villains will all be punished eventually, but certainly not right at the start. 3kReads8.3Score11214d adds
- 118 Siheyuan: After Kneeling at Haizi, I Made My Escape 四合院：跪完海子我跑路了 Zhong Jianhua transmigrated to a siheyuan courtyard in 1965, becoming the starving, skin-and-bones apprentice who had been pressured into donating his wages for two years. He earned eighteen yuan a month, but after being “lent” money and forced to donate, he had less than three yuan left to live on. Refuse to donate? Silly Zhu's fists would be waiting for him. Report it? The neighborhood office would just go through the motions, and he'd get beaten even worse afterward. That's how the original 1kReads6.3Score10014d adds
- 119 No Good Ending in the Courtyard 禽满四合院不得善终 Xu Weiguo has a deadly weapon, and with it comes the urge to kill, bringing disaster upon his family! Xu Weidong obeys the law and lies flat, just enjoying the show. So what does Xu Weidong have to do with the trouble Xu Weiguo gets into? A new writer and a new book! 81Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 120 Xu Damao's Sweet Revenge in the Siheyuan 四合院许大茂之快意恩仇 An unwilling transmigration! Xu Sheng had a happy family, until he was suddenly struck by lightning and transmigrated into Xu Damao, a resident of the courtyard complex! Watch as Xu Sheng, now Xu Damao, turns his life around! Any resemblance to other works is purely coincidental! 7.5kReads7.3Score17914d adds
- 121 Siheyuan: From the Start, the Whole Family Gathered Around to Cry 四合院：开局全家人围着哭 (Period Setting + Siheyuan Courtyard + Pocket Dimension + Mild Antagonism + Carefree + Multiple Heroines?) Li Zifeng was an utterly ordinary poor young man from a later era. After accidentally getting swept up in the transmigration craze, he was dropped straight into 1943, in Kaoshan Village. By chance, he became the apprentice of an eccentric master who spent all day drinking fake liquor and lived a carefree, easygoing life. He learned a unique set of unorthodox skills that were down-to-earth a 20.6kReads5.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 122 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Cause Trouble and Get Silly Zhu Arrested 四合院：开局捅娄子，抓捕傻柱 An internet celebrity with eight million followers transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard as its major villain, Xu Damao? Inheriting his predecessor's fortune from the start? That big white goose sure is a treat! Ezi! This woman doesn't look like a good person. Don't pin this on me! You're the only one I love! Ezi! You want me to hold on to your family's fortune? Don't worry, it's in safe hands! What's a little pocket change between friends? Ezi! What? You don't believe a nuclear submarine can 11.1kReads7.7Score32514d adds
- 123 Siheyuan: You’re All Refusing to Marry? Then I’ll Marry Huang Rong, the Chef 四合院：组团不嫁？反娶厨娘黄蓉 Liu Ye transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard, hoping to steal Qin Huairu away from her intended match. But Qin Huairu's love of money rears its head: she demands a bride price of twenty yuan and a four-piece trousseau right off the bat. The Jia family then starts spreading rumors around the courtyard, turning everyone there against Liu Ye. As a result, Lou Xiao'e, Yu Li, Yu Haitang, and Yushui all reject him. Then the System activates and gives him a wife from the start: Huang Ro 4.3kReads8.2Score18814d adds
- 124 Siheyuan: The Fool Wakes from His Dream 四合院之傻子的梦醒了 Was it rebirth, transmigration, or reincarnation? A soul spends thousands of years being reborn, living different lives and witnessing the rise and fall of multiple dynasties, before arriving at Courtyard House No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. What will it experience among the many formidable residents of the courtyard? 5kReads8.1Score10414d adds
- 125 Siheyuan: Here I Come, You Beasts 四合院之禽兽们我来啦 Multiple female leads, parallel timelines, a world blending several screen franchises, a harmonious family, and putting scumbags in their place... Li Xiangyang, a young man from the 21st century, served in the military for ten years and returned home covered in honors after leaving the army. He planned to go back to his hometown and care for his parents, but came across a woman trying to take her own life by jumping into a river. Without a second thought, he plunged into the water to save her on 114Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 126 Siheyuan: I Strip the Whole Courtyard Bare, and the Jia Family Sells Their Son for Glory 四合院：掏空全院，贾家卖子求荣 [System + won’t kill scoundrels, but will make them pay + the male lead never takes a loss] After transmigrating into a courtyard house as an orphan living in the front yard, Lin An learns that his late father sacrificed his life to save a valuable machine. The compensation money, job, and house his father left behind are now coveted by every scoundrel in the courtyard. The First Master joins forces with Jia Zhangshi, using a Taoist scripture as bait to frame Lin An for “feudal superstition.” Th 3.7kReads5.7Score14614d adds
- 127 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Gets Both Wealth and Beauty 四合院之何雨柱财色兼收 A PhD in metallurgy was killed in an ambush by Jia Banggeng’s grandson, then unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of He Yuzhu in the courtyard compound. Fortunately, although resources were scarce in this era, he had his metallurgical knowledge and Silly Zhu’s remarkable cooking skills. He could go to university, produce high-grade steel, design the Beijing Jeep, develop televisions, train master craftsmen for the nation, take domestic cars abroad, research electrical appliances, open up th 916Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 128 From Construction Worker to Big Shot in the Courtyard 四合院从民工到大人物 He forces Jia Zhangshi to move out, leaves Qin Huairu too afraid to speak, and easily sorts out the seemingly troublesome courtyard. Then he escapes to Hong Kong, where he thrives. He thinks he’ll enjoy a carefree life from then on, but Marvel barges into the mix. A chaotic crossover of courtyard drama, Hong Kong movies, and Marvel. 8.7kReads7.8Score42214d adds
- 129 Siheyuan: The Mad Tree Demon Transmigrates Again and Again 四合院：疯癫树妖穿越不息 [Quick transmigration, can inhabit male or female bodies, comes with a spatial dimension, unhinged personality] Having lived for several hundred years as a tree demon, it nearly wiped out humanity in the apocalypse. The Heavenly Dao of the main world kicked it into a small world to serve its sentence. As the saying goes, only a villain can deal with another villain. A mutant pomegranate tree demon with no sense of right or wrong thrives in a courtyard full of villains. Along the way, it also hel 31.5kReads8.0Score1.6k14d adds
- 130 Period: I Moved in Next Door to My Scumbag Dad 年代：我住进渣爹隔壁 Li He woke up one day to find he had transmigrated to 1979, an era when people barely had enough to eat or wear. “Good thing I can take the college entrance exam next year.” But after sorting through the memories in his head, he discovered that his predecessor had even less aptitude for studying than he did. “Looks like I’ll have to rely on my dad.” “What? My dad ran away?” His predecessor’s father still clung to his ‘ambitions’. He abandoned his wife and children and went back to the city to fi 384Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Who Says Qin Huairu Is Old? She's Still So Young 谁说秦淮茹老啊，这淮茹可太嫩了 [Siheyuan goddess + snowy-white beauty + Conquest System + transmigrated slacker!] After ten years of secluded cultivation at a Taoist temple, the first woman I meet after coming down from the mountain is Qin Huairu, the White Lotus cult leader! At this point, she has yet to acquire the world-weary air of someone who has endured hardship. All she has is youthful vitality and anxiety about the future. For a bride price of just ten yuan, I could marry her and bring her to the Siheyuan, where sh 2.1kReads6.2Score10414d adds
- 132 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. 22.2kReads7.1Score1k14d adds
- 133 I, Silly Zhu, Do the Missions, So Why Does Xu Damao Get the Rewards? 我傻柱做任务，奖励凭啥给许大茂 I'm Silly Zhu, and I got a Comeback System. Complete a task, get a reward. That day, Jia Dongxu died. Uncle Yi asked me to bring Sister Qin some leftovers. I was just about to agree when the System told me that refusing would double my strength. For the reward, I gritted my teeth and said no. Uncle Yi was furious, and so was I. “I completed the task, so where’s my reward?” That evening, Uncle Yi organized a fundraiser. The damn System even lied and said it would give me 300 yuan if I donated not 109Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 134 Siheyuan: Living Next Door and Watching the Show 四合院：住隔壁笑看风云 Low on aggression, no cultivation, but with a powerful golden finger. The female lead is Qin Huairu. She is not promiscuous, but she does enjoy the occasional brief fling. She will use a secret identity to do things that are inconvenient to do openly. Fight Japanese pirates, root out traitors, collect antiques, and buy courtyards. When foreign enemies invade, she will head to the 38th Parallel to have some fun. Earn honors, become a general, catch enemy spies, and keep her family and country saf 7.5kReads8.0Score32614d adds
- 135 In This Life, I Won't Be Sha Zhu, the Human Punching Bag 这一世我傻柱不在当血牛 The night he froze to death under a bridge, Sha Zhu finally saw the truth. His whole life, it turned out, he’d been a stupid donkey, beaten down and milked dry, with nothing to show for it. When he opened his eyes again, he was squatting by the back entrance to the steel mill canteen in 1965, a cigarette dangling from his lips. A voice rang in his head: “Task: Make sure Qin Huairu doesn’t get a single drop of cooking oil at lunch today.” “Reward: Twenty jin of pork lard, fifty yuan, and three na 203Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 136 Siheyuan: Xu Damao Making His Way Through the Mortal World 四合院：尘世打滚许大茂 A destination for checking in across the myriad heavens: a Beijing courtyard compound. Xu Damao is here as a tourist, just to watch the drama and stir up some trouble. Sounds good to him. As for the people in the courtyard, they can make of their joys and sorrows, warmth and hardship what they will! Not a classic wish-fulfillment novel, and not too much angst. 399Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 137 The Daily Life of a Movie Projectionist Who Likes to Stroll Around the Siheyuan 四合院逛街型放映员的日常 After a dream lasting nineteen years, Zhang Wushi has only recently fully awakened the memories of his previous life, thanks to the mystery of his prenatal memories. In 1950, he happens to encounter Qin Huairu, a character from the story, and realizes that he has transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard. A bold idea comes to him. What if, and he means what if, he disrupts the story at its very roots? What would happen? Using the special ability he has in this life, he lands a job 30.7kReads7.1Score2k14d adds
- 138 Siheyuan: He Yushui’s Soul Travels Back to 1959 四合院：何雨水魂穿1959 He Tianjiao was a heaven-blessed prodigy from a powerful martial arts family in a future era. After an unexpected incident during a martial arts match, she transmigrates to the world of a Siheyuan in 1959, where her soul merges with He Yushui, who has fainted from the cold and hunger. Save He Yuzhu, and watch how I, He Yushui, defeat every scheming beast without fail! 2.5kReads6.7Score—14d adds
- 139 Siheyuan: A Second Life 四合院之再来一生 Chen Yizhou, a modern man, wakes up in 1958 and takes a job at a steel mill before moving into a courtyard house. With a System and an all-seeing perspective, how will he deal with all the scheming neighbors?… 66.2kReads7.4Score7.9k14d adds
- 140 Siheyuan: After My Family Was Destroyed, I Left No One Alive! 四合院：家破人亡后！一个不留！ {Siheyuan courtyard + no System + no female lead + mystery} Complete, original version!!! Pick whichever version you like!!! Lin Feng had a superhuman talent for computational simulation. He gave his life to research for his country, but died suddenly by accident! He transmigrated into the body of Lin Feng from the Siheyuan courtyard! The original Lin Feng had a family everyone envied, but the courtyard's vicious residents grew jealous and destroyed his family. His only younger sister was also s 186Reads8.5Score11014d adds
- 141 Reborn as He Yushui: My Brother Is Dead, So Let's Kill 重生何雨水：我哥死了，杀就完了 At 65, He Yushui learns that her brother, Silly Zhu, was driven out by Bang Geng in the middle of winter and froze to death beneath a bridge, only to be torn apart by wild dogs afterward! Only Xu Damao took Silly Zhu’s body away for burial. He Yushui would remember this kindness. Now old, He Yushui wants to avenge her brother but is powerless to do so. Just then, a future female assassin’s transmigration fails, and He Yushui absorbs and fuses with the assassin’s skills. Though she is old, she ha 2.3kReads5.5Score10114d adds
- 142 Siheyuan: How Did I End Up Here? 四合院我怎么来了 I became “Silly Zhu.” What the heck! I’m not even surnamed He! My name doesn’t sound anything like his, either! And I can’t cook! Just a couple ounces of liquor and I transmigrated! No truck, no speeding car. The story hasn’t even begun, and I’m already flipping the table and smashing the pot. Who has time to put up with you people? I’ll follow the course of history and, every now and then, toss a pebble into the river. 19.1kReads8.4Score62214d adds
- 143 Siheyuan: Evil Gets Its Due, and the Courtyard’s Villains Meet Their End 四合院：恶有恶报全院恶人终落幕 [Revenge] [Multiple Heroines] [Making Money] [Sneaky Schemer] [Tightly Plotted] Li Zhong, who had transmigrated into this world, looked around the courtyard at the vile beasts. Everyone was like a vulture, waiting for him to die. But he had been reborn! One by one, two by two, three by three... Li Zhong plotted the beasts' deaths. Everyone suspected Li Zhong was involved, but there was no evidence. What goes around comes around, and justice never fails. In the end, all the beasts were left in de 265Reads8.0Score55414d adds
- 144 The Siheyuan Cultivation Loser's Comeback 四合院修仙废材的逆袭 [Siheyuan + System + Cultivation + Daily Life + …] Chen Shuai, who has lived two lives, transmigrates to the world of the Siheyuan. Yi Zhonghai, Silly Zhu, Jia Zhangshi… They’re nothing but dust. Just don’t mess with me, or else… What? There’s no spiritual energy in this world, so I can’t cultivate? No problem. I have secret body-tempering techniques, and spirit stones awarded by the System! What? This era is unusual, and making money is difficult? No problem. With my abilities, earning over ten 3.4kReads6.6Score13714d adds
- 145 Siheyuan: Where There Are People, There's a World of Its Own 四合院，有人就有江湖 Reborn in a courtyard, I open my eyes and see nothing but talented people. Whoa! Isn’t that Yi Zhonghai? Zheng Chaoyang? Good grief, this is a world where film and TV dramas overlap! There’s going to be plenty to do! The darkness before dawn is often the hardest to endure. This is a story about transmigrators gathering kindling and starting a fire. Multiple heroines, no saintly do-gooder, justified bullying of the courtyard’s beasts, lighthearted comedy, and a sly, petty-minded protagonist. 4kReads6.4Score13314d adds
- 146 Siheyuan: I Became Silly Zhu's Newlywed Wife 四合院：穿成了傻柱的新婚媳妇儿 Wang Xueqin wakes up to find herself newly married to Silly Zhu... Jia Zhangshi, Qin Huairu, open the door! Hurry up and open the door... From the start, she tracks down He Daqing, exposes Yi Zhonghai, and lands herself a stay in the little black room... With Qin Huairu having lost her two biggest backers, can she still stir up trouble in the courtyard? Qin Huairu: You don't understand my charm... Wang Xueqin: Ha! You think you're ready to take on Aunt Xue? You're still too green! 339Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 Siheyuan: I, Xu Damao, Am the King of Technology 四合院：我许大茂科技之王 (No bloodlust + one heroine + no flirting around + industry) After his soul transmigrates into Xu Damao, a man with the same name and appearance as the one Silly Zhu knocked out with a club, he suddenly finds himself in the disastrous year of 1958. Xu Damao is determined to do something for his country. Starting at the steel mill, he takes it one step at a time, leading the way in technological development and progress. 5.4kReads7.9Score23714d adds
- 148 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
- 149 Siheyuan: Don't Talk to Granny Deaf 四合院：不要和聋老太太说话 "If you like Lou Xiao'e, don't read this + No simping for capitalists" The title of this book is a bit of a gimmick. It starts in the winter of 1965, while Silly Zhu and Lou Xiao'e get together in the summer of 1966. Xu Damao is reborn. In his previous life, he was the villain everyone in the courtyard wanted to beat up, and the retirement club’s sworn enemy. He’d had his moments of glory and his share of hard times, but after his business failed, he lost both his own house and his father’s. Now 6kReads8.4Score17614d adds
- 150 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Ruined the White Lotus's Face 四合院：开局毁了白莲花脸 [Mindless wish-fulfillment + intense hostility + tormenting the vermin + scheming + everyone is evil + not one gets away] In 1961, Sun Dazhuang transmigrates into a new resident of a Beijing courtyard, a man beaten to death by the neighborhood’s old-age-care clique. He hits back by beating Silly Zhu into having no heirs and disfiguring Qin’s face, and that’s just the beginning! Watch him take revenge to the extreme, strip the vermin of what they care about most, and then slaughter them! 3.9kReads5.8Score12014d adds
