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- 101 Siheyuan: Awakening the Great Guy System from the Start 四合院：开局觉醒大好人系统 A courtyard full of beasts! The protagonist is determined to expose their true colors! “Walking ATM” Silly Zhu, “Crying and wailing” Jia Zhangshi, “Pure White Lotus” Qin Huairu, and “Thieving Saint” Banggeng! Pure, no heroine, science and technology, absolutely! Nuclear bombs, aircraft carriers, and a cosmic extermination cannon, plus fiery eyes, seventy-two transformations, and the mighty Heavenly Dragon... Let the glorious chaos begin! But when all the courtyard beasts start mending their ways 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Siheyuan: I Can Rewind Time and Solve Cases Like a God 四合院：我，回溯，破案如神 [Period drama + courtyard compound + taking on villains + solving crimes + slightly altered plot + everyday life] Zhang Jianjun opened his eyes to find himself in Nanluoguxiang in 1963, now a newly arrived police officer at the local station. His modern police methods were useless here. The courtyard was crawling with scoundrels, and none of them considered him one of their own. But he awakened the [Eye of Retracing]: by touching evidence, he could witness the bloody truth of a crime scene first —Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 103 Siheyuan: Jia Zhangshi Gets a New Uncle 四合院，贾张氏多了个表叔 During a difficult era, Hu Lai finds someone at his door demanding that he marry her. With the System's blessing, Hu Lai merges with two other souls, three souls becoming one person. The System also gives him a pocket dimension and a Great Restoration Pill enhanced by the System. With a golden finger, martial prowess, and the fusion of two other personalities, watch the new Hu Lai make his way in the courtyard compound and use his go 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Siheyuan: My Wife Liu Lan Starts Off Against Li Huaide 四合院：媳妇刘岚开局对线李怀德 Liu Shuanzhu, a longtime user of Tomato Novels, accidentally transmigrates into the world of a red-hot-era courtyard house. He is the husband of Liu Lan, a kitchen helper at the steel mill cafeteria, and a notorious hutong rascal whom everyone hates. Freeloader, good-for-nothing, no-account... These labels that anyone would find unbearable are plastered right across Liu Shuanzhu's forehead. (The introduction may be weak, but the story speaks for itself.) (The author has already completed a two-m 397Reads—Score103Shelves
- 105 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Is Reborn in 1956 四合院：傻柱重生56年 He Yuzhu, who died a miserable death beneath a bridge, is reborn as a teenager. In an era of scarce supplies, having a pocket dimension is essential if you want a comfortable life. Surrounded by beasts, He Yuzhu wants nothing to do with them and only wants to live his own quiet life. But the beasts won't leave him alone. When Qin Huairu asks to borrow grain and He Yuzhu refuses, Jia Zhangshi runs straight to his door and makes a scene. Yi Zhonghai takes the Jia family's side and targets the He f 506Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 106 Siheyuan: More Women, More Blessings, Endless Romance 四合院：多女多福情不断 [Has a Pocket Dimension, No System] [Low on Aggression] [Doesn’t Start Trouble, but Isn’t Afraid of It; Decisive and Ruthless] Zhu Yukun was tricked into taking a summer job in Eastern Europe. After spending two years’ worth of the rest of his life just trying to survive, he finally earned enough money and was ready to leave. But on his final mission, he died beneath a drone strike. His soul transmigrated into Zhu Yukun, a man forced to change careers due to an injury. Carrying his military hono 6.5kReads6.6Score242Shelves
- 107 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 4.1kReads5.4Score209Shelves
- 108 Four-Nation Courtyard: The Day I Transmigrated, I Became the Ancestor of the Capital’s Elite 四合院之穿越那天我成了京圈祖宗 Lin Zhixing, a history graduate with outstanding academic credentials and an antiques appraiser, dies in an explosion at an auction in Hong Kong and transmigrates into a courtyard home. He uses cunning schemes to get revenge on the vile residents of the courtyard, then ventures beyond it and builds his own business empire with his extraordinary intellect, carving out a place for himself in both domestic and international business. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 I Feed Nine Sisters by Hunting 我靠打猎养活九姐妹 [Screen and TV Four-Courtyard] Strolling through the spring breeze and living life to the fullest, he faces a disastrous start during the famine years, then raises nine lovely sisters. He steals a tiger's prey in the mountains and hunts wild boars, heads to the city to unearth treasure and capture enemy spies, and raids overseas for food, enjoying a carefree and thrilling life. 959Reads—Score101Shelves
- 110 Siheyuan: I Marry Chen Xueru, and All the Birds Are My Servants 四合院：娶妻陈雪茹，众禽都是我的仆人 After transmigrating into the world of the Courtyard, Lin Zheng finds himself working for Chen Xueru, but awakens a dream realm. Not only can he make people work for him and farm in their dreams, he can also acquire their skills? Well, now I’m wide awake! And as for workers, aren’t the troublemakers in this courtyard the perfect labor force? Jia Dongxu: “I just took a nap. Why do I feel like I’m about to drop dead?” Yi Zhonghai: “There’s a meeting soon, but I really don’t have the strength to go 535Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Siheyuan: The Mosaic 四合院之马赛克 Armed with the most useless-getting-beaten System imaginable, he arrives in a courtyard house everyone has traveled through. To make a good life in those hard times, you need a few skills. 31Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 112 Siheyuan: Setting the Family Straight, Starting with My Mom 四合院：整顿家风，从我妈开始 [Courtyard House + System + Period Setting + Male-Oriented + Multiple Female Leads + Lighthearted Comedy] Song Xiangyang is sent flying after being hit by a truck, then reincarnates as a baby in a rural village. As far back as he can remember, his family has consisted only of his mother and his younger siblings. His father works in the city and only comes home once in a while. He always thought they were a loving family. That is, until one day, his mother takes him to the city to find his father 127.4kReads8.3Score10.8kShelves
- 113 He Yuzhu, the Moral Paragon: A Young Man Who Wins People Over with Reason 道德楷模何雨柱，以理服人好青年 As the 2008 Olympics approach, elderly He Yuzhu, under Bang Geng’s persuasion, is about to transfer the three rooms in the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang to him. Bang Geng thinks his scheme has succeeded. But he never expected that He Yuzhu, transmigrated from Blue Star, would take over the old He Yuzhu’s body. With the help of the Old Six System, he successfully foils the schemes of Bang Geng and Qin Huairu, and makes their lives worse than death. With the Old Six System’s help, He Yuzhu, th 88Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Happy Life 四合院之傻柱的幸福生活 “Xu Damao, tell us the truth. Why did you sneak up behind someone and knock them out?” “I, I couldn't help myself.” Xia Junfeng inexplicably transmigrates to the era of the drama-filled courtyard. He becomes Silly Zhu and wants to pursue his own happiness, while facing a whole courtyard full of trouble, and getting caught up in factional infighting. What path will he take? Life is ordinary, but full of fun. Silly Zhu wants nothing more than to be happy. May he get his wish! 5.1kReads8.1Score310Shelves
- 115 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. 1.4kReads5.8Score—Shelves
- 116 Siheyuan: The Courtyard Boss? You’re the One I’m Beating Up 四合院：管事大爷？打的就是你 At the end of 2025, Zhang Dachao is sent by a truck to Courtyard No. 95 in 1959. From the start, he discovers that things couldn't have gone better: his father died a hero, he grew up without a mother, and Yi Zhonghai and Jia Dongxu are already trying to force him to hand over his home. Zhang Dachao locks Jia Dongxu up first, then uses his wits and strength to take down the scoundrels: he ruins Yi Zhonghai's reputation, sends Jia Dongxu to an early grave, gets Jia Zhangshi thrown in jail, and ma 25.9kReads7.0Score1.4kShelves
- 117 Siheyuan: I Start as Silly Zhu's Training Partner 四合院：从绑定傻柱当代练开始 [Power-Leveling System]+ [Proficiency]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Mildly Edgy] On a snowy winter day in 1950, He Daqing runs off with a widow and all the money. He Yu Liang, transmigrated into the body of the six-year-old youngest son of the He family, looks at his fifteen-year-old brother Silly Zhu, eyes bloodshot on the green train, and his shivering little sister. He silently activates the [Close-Kin Power-Leveling System]! Unable to bring himself to put his little sister through it, He Yu Liang deci 3.5kReads8.3Score193Shelves
- 118 The Feel of Everyday Life in a Siheyuan of the Bygone Era 年代四合院的生活气息 After awakening his memories from a past life, Luo Yongjun discovered that he had arrived at the legendary Siheyuan Courtyard No. 95! But this courtyard had no demonized characters at all. Everyone was perfectly normal! Well, with Luo Yongjun getting involved, the courtyard gradually picked up a few new nicknames!!! The Divorced Courtyard, the Crippled Courtyard, the Martyrs' Courtyard, the Widows' Courtyard... Come see the everyday warmth and bustle of an ordinary-era courtyard... 36.4kReads7.0Score2.6kShelves
- 119 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 606Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 120 Siheyuan: Spirit Spring Nourishment, and Beautiful Women Lose Themselves 四合院：灵泉滋养，美妇沉沦 On the first day after Ma Xiaodong transmigrates, Qin Huairu corners him at the door and calls him a “pervert.” The whole courtyard waits to see him get kicked out. He fires back, “Where were you last night?” Qin Huairu turns deathly pale. The courtyard falls silent, and the onlookers find their legs going weak. On his very first day, he’s turned the whole place upside down. 5kReads5.0Score264Shelves
- 121 Siheyuan: A Serial Murder Case, The Beasts All Die 四合院：连环杀人案，禽兽死光光 [Courtyard drama + extreme hostility + tormenting the beasts + scheming + cathartic + everyone is evil + twisted] This is a game of Werewolf. The story begins when Lin Dajun and a sadistic serial killer... both transmigrate into Love in the Courtyard! Lin Dajun has thirty days to find the transmigrated serial killer! Meanwhile, the killer hiding among the beasts murders people in the compound from time to time! From the start, Xiao Dang falls to her death, driving Qin Huairu mad with grief! As t 2kReads5.5Score—Shelves
- 122 From Invincible in the Siheyuan to Conquering Hong Kong 从四合院无敌到香江 After transmigrating to the early 1960s, into Love in the Courtyard, he has to outwit and outmaneuver the courtyard’s many schemers while savoring the distinctive spirit of the era. Grandpa Yi, Yi Zhonghai, hides behind a facade of virtue and uses morality to manipulate people. Grandpa Liu, Liu Haizhong, is stupid, vicious, and full of himself. Grandpa Yan, Yan Bugui, is miserly and so stingy he’d pluck a feather from a passing goose. Jia Zhangshi is lazy and greedy, throwing tantrums, causing s 1.7kReads5.1Score—Shelves
- 123 Lu Zhishen Beats Up the Courtyard 鲁智深暴打四合院 The story of the Siheyuan, from past to present, and the tales of Yi Zhonghai and Granny Deaf. Yushui is the one who gets treated most unfairly, so this book is very kind to her. As for Sha Zhu, well, he has a name, and that's enough. I can't be bothered with him. 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Siheyuan: The Days of Living Off Others and Waiting to Die 四合院：混吃等死的日子 After accidentally transmigrating, Yi Xiaohe arrived in the world of Love in the Courtyard and became Yi Zhonghai’s biological son. What had once been an ordinary life was now filled with unexpected leisure and comfort. In this familiar yet unfamiliar world, he settled into a life of “eating his fill and waiting for death,” enjoying his father’s protection and the worry-free comforts of home. Sunlight spilled across the courtyard, and a cat dozed lazily. It was as if time had stopped there. Ami 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 Siheyuan: System, How Did You Become a Director? 四合院：系统，你怎么成了导演 Ye Tiance transmigrates into the world of Birds Fill the Courtyard and gets a System! The System wants to be a director, so he has no choice but to give it his all and earn rewards by acting. From the start, he plots to marry Qin Huairu! Then he turns all the courtyard’s troublemakers into his personal supporting cast... 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Siheyuan: Settling Scores with the Retirement Care Group and Rising in Handong 四合院：清算养老团，崛起汉东 [Siheyuan] + [In the Name of the People] + [Crossover between film and TV dramas] Li Xiangrong wakes up to find himself in the infamous vermin-filled Siheyuan, where hypocrisy is everywhere and everyone is scheming to leech off one another! For the sake of his retirement, Yi Zhonghai uses moral blackmail to manipulate everyone. Granny Deaf throws her weight around and bullies people, while Silly Zhu is kindhearted but brainless, letting anyone push him around. The Jia family runs amok in the cou 35.3kReads6.5Score1.7kShelves
- 127 Siheyuan: I Built My Fortune by Breaking People’s Legs 四合院：我靠打断别人腿发家致富 Zhang Yifan transmigrates into the original host, whose legs were broken by Silly Zhu for refusing to lend Qin Huairu some meat, and merges with the host's soul. Zhang Yifan becomes a leg-breaking maniac, repeatedly staging leg-breaking incidents in the courtyard compound. From then on, everyone there lives in fear. Zhang Yifan not only avenges the original host, but also acquires supplies and skills, making his life more and more comfortable. 9.4kReads6.4Score458Shelves
- 128 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 2.1kReads6.2Score104Shelves
- 129 Siheyuan: Grandfather and Grandson Transmigrate Together, Leaving the Whole Courtyard Dumbfounded 四合院：祖孙双穿，全院懵逼 (No malice, feel-good, System, causing trouble across borders, and an overprotective grandma.) The actors who played Liu Guangtian and Grandma Deaf are transported together into the world of "The Cunning of the Courtyard". With the power to teleport through space, Tian Dazhuang takes the whole neighborhood, young and old, across borders to cause trouble. Using the Bond System, Grandma Tian lives like the true matriarch of the courtyard. There are no schemes or backstabbing, just the everyday liv 23.7kReads8.4Score1.9kShelves
- 130 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
- 131 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Toppled Director Wang's Family Altar 四合院：开局掀翻王主任家灵堂 [Kill the Body and Crush the Spirit] On New Year's Eve in 2026, Su Ming avenges his daughter by blowing up Jiang Buzhang's entire family. He is blown to pieces himself that night. When he opens his eyes again, he's a university student in 1960 with the same name and surname. 87.1kReads7.7Score6.2kShelves
- 132 Siheyuan: Head of Security at the Food Factory 四合院：食品厂里的保卫科科长 Reborn in the body of the second son of the Liu family in the back courtyard, he is constantly bullied and framed by his older brother. When his mother points a knife at him, he thinks: You gave me this life. If I die from this blow, then I’ll have paid you back. If I’m lucky enough to survive, this life is one I reclaimed for myself, and you have nothing to do with it. He leaves the Liu family and keeps rising through the ranks at the food factory, becoming a senior official before long. Meanwh 4.4kReads6.2Score204Shelves
- 133 The Dreamlike Journey from Courtyard-House Local to Soviet Trader 四合院老司机到苏联倒爷的梦幻史 Starting out as a truck driver at the steel mill in the courtyard compound, he steadily built up his fortune and became the Soviet Union’s biggest black-market trader. He doesn’t fawn over saintly do-gooders or put up with nitpickers. The whole courtyard becomes his harem, and he keeps every oddball firmly in line! From a lowly factory driver to a meteoric rise, he takes power, influence, and wealth into his own hands, climbing higher at every turn with no one able to stop him! Then he gets his 4.4kReads6.7Score266Shelves
- 134 Siheyuan: A Wartime Veterinarian Gets Jia Zhang Pregnant 四合院，支前兽医，让贾张氏怀孕 My new work is out! You can read it 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! 16Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 135 Siheyuan: Control the Whole Flock by Holding Grandma Deaf in My Hands 四合院：挟聋老太太以令众禽 After a foot-massage therapist kicked Qin Jianghe into the sky, he accidentally transmigrated to 1965, a time of fiery revolutionary fervor. But before Qin Jianghe could even lift his head and open his eyes to the world, the legendary thief Bang Geng shot him out of a tree with a slingshot. The bitter winter weather in Beijing and the ragged old cotton trousers hanging from a tree branch both reminded Qin Jianghe that this was no ordinary courtyard. (P.S. A period story set in a courtyard, with —Reads—Score100Shelves
- 136 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu's Life at Its Peak 四合院何雨柱：巅峰人生 I became "Silly Zhu" from the courtyard. Faced with the First Master using moral blackmail, a leeching ingrate, and a whole courtyard full of scheming beasts... I just smiled. In this life, my God of Cooking hands will shape my destiny. Yi Zhonghai, I'll tear your hypocrisy to shreds; Qin Huairu, I'll turn your schemes into a joke. Watch me cook up the pinnacle of my life in this little courtyard and settle every score, one by one! 198Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 137 Transmigrating to a Bygone Era, Starting with a Laundry Girl Breaking Off Our Engagement 穿越年代，从洗衣姬悔婚开始 [Handcrafted, no AI. Courtyard setting + film and TV crossover] [Important, repeated three times: This story has no dragging things out, no calling anyone 'Great-Uncle,' and no letters of forgiveness.] Chen Aikun, a 62-year-old man, transmigrates into a film and TV crossover world centered on the courtyard, though he arrives a little too early. See how Chen Aikun stirs things up with his outrageous schemes, stopping He Daqing from running away and throwing the entire courtyard into chaos. 142Reads6.3Score121Shelves
- 138 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu, Your Dad Was Sent Off to the Army by Your Brother 四合院，傻柱你爸被你哥送去当兵 After transmigrating, He Yulin tricks He Daqing into joining the army. Taking his younger siblings with him, he begins his legendary life, going undercover at the steel mill. A new schemer has appeared in the courtyard, leaving everyone on edge... The System he triggers is even more shameless. [Trick He Daqing into joining the army] [Trick Jia Dongxu into marrying Tu Fuxiu] [Trick the Tu family into steamrolling the courtyard] [Trick Lou Zhenhua into donating the steel mill] [Trick Yi Zhongha 4.2kReads6.8Score161Shelves
- 139 Transmigrating to the Siheyuan: Nine Suns Divine Skill from the Start 穿越四合院：开局九阳神功 In 1959, seventeen-year-old Li Weimin died of hunger in the freezing December cold after years of mistreatment. Out of spite, he had refused to eat. The three-waste youth Li Weimin somehow took over the original owner’s body. In the dead of winter, with nothing to eat or drink, he thought he would die in the cold too. But when he casually tossed out a piece of cornbread, he unexpectedly awakened the System. From the start, he obtained a copy of the Nine Yang Manual. Sure, this was the age of mod 4kReads7.0Score227Shelves
- 140 Siheyuan: Uncle Mao Starts Cultivating 四合院：我茂爷开始修仙了 [Cultivation for All | Set Three Transmigrators Straight | Bully the Beasts | A Changing World Order | Playing the Neighbor] Chen Dawei, with a Level One sign-in System Wang Jinlin, with a Level Two emotion-point collection System Zhang Xiaohei, with a Level Three slaughter-and-beast-bullying System Even the beasts have started cultivating. Can the transmigrators still bully them? 3kReads—Score109Shelves
- 141 The Jia Family Has No Heirs Left 贾家绝后了 No pocket dimension, no System. The story tries to recreate the hardship and frugality of life in that era. The first few chapters focus on setting things up, so they may feel a little slow. A hotel chef who often stays up late reading courtyard-style novels suddenly drops dead one night... When he wakes up, he discovers he has become the protagonist of a novel, Silly Zhu... The protagonist is no saint, so readers who prefer saintly characters should steer clear... 3.2kReads5.9Score102Shelves
- 142 Siheyuan: The Troublemaker in the West Wing Courtyard 四合院之西跨小院的搅局者 Told entirely from the protagonist’s perspective, with a fast-paced, slice-of-life feel. At its most basic, life is all about rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea. Whether you make it wonderful depends on your outlook. What matters most is the warmth of everyday life: tend the hearth so its fire doesn’t go out, and raise a few children. Of course, you need a solid material foundation, too. If you want to shake things up, first make sure your own life is comfortable and your abilities ar 1.8kReads8.0Score102Shelves
- 143 Evil King of the Siheyuan: I Stop Time to Judge the Fools 四合院邪王：我时停审判众禽 [Maximum satisfaction]+ [No angst]+ [Putting the bullies in their place]! This book is also known as: “When I Stop Time, I Don’t Care About Anyone” and “Was That Really an Accident? The Courtyard Bullies Are in Tears After I’ve Tricked Them!” Lin Fan transmigrates into "The Full Courtyard", only to discover that not a single person around him is decent. Faced with a courtyard full of scheming scoundrels, he awakens the Time Stop System, which lets him do whatever he wants while the world is froz 409Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Went to Seek Out Relatives and Stumbled into a Courtyard of Beasts 四合院：开局投亲，误入禽院 During the famine of 1961, siblings Li Yujing and Li Loulan, who had come from Shandong, received a letter from the capital. Their childless uncle was gravely ill and had left them a house and some money to inherit. However, Li Yujing, a transmigrator, discovered that he had arrived in a shared television-and-film universe. The evil neighbors in the courtyard wanted to drive the siblings out and seize their uncle's estate. 17.1kReads8.6Score812Shelves
- 145 Siheyuan: The Night-Soil Collector Marries Huairu, Driving the Jia Family Mad 四合院：掏粪工娶淮茹，贾家气疯 Should she choose a steel-mill worker or a night-soil collector? Qin Huairu, a country girl who came to the capital for a blind date, faces a difficult choice. The steel-mill worker is the apprentice Jia Dongxu. As for the Jia family, you know how they are. The night-soil collector is Yang Zhiyuan, a man who can trim donkey hooves and is considered the courtyard’s biggest pushover. Yang Zhiyuan was dragged along by Jia Dongxu to serve as a foil on his date, so Jia could make himself look like th 220Reads—Score162Shelves
- 146 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! 3.9kReads5.8Score120Shelves
- 147 Siheyuan: Reporting a Crime at the Post Office and Arresting Yi Zhonghai 四合院，邮局报案，抓捕易中海 Gao Yang transmigrates into a courtyard. His parents are technical workers sent to help build up the northwest, so he lives with his grandfather in the courtyard. His predecessor suffered inhuman treatment and was ultimately killed by Yi Zhonghai and Silly Zhu. After transmigrating, Gao Yang is shocked to discover that Yi Zhonghai has been siphoning off 8,400 yuan over seven years. Once he sends Yi Zhonghai to prison, his Merit System activates. “Ding! Yi Zhonghai has been sentenced to death. R 20.3kReads6.1Score777Shelves
- 148 Siheyuan: A Tough Guy Moves In 四合院：狠人进院 Old Wang, who lived in a Beijing courtyard house, died suddenly of a heart attack. When the steel mill looked into his affairs, they discovered he had a nephew, Wang Tiezheng, living in the Northeast. And so, completely bewildered, Wang Tiezheng crossed through time and space, then somehow blundered into life in a courtyard full of vile characters! 44.9kReads8.3Score2kShelves
- 149 Siheyuan: This Tough Guy from Sichuan Is No One to Mess With 四合院：这个川蛮子可不好惹 [Period Siheyuan + smart, satisfying fiction + no saintly protagonist + decisive and ruthless + never fawns on anyone + no involvement with the women in the story + pocket dimension] After transmigrating to 1957, Wang Erheng only wants to live a quiet life. But the residents of Courtyard No. 95 won't let him. Jia Zhangshi tries to lay a hand on his younger sister, Liu Haizhong wants to impose rules, and Yi Zhonghai tries to use a mass meeting to bully him. He slaps them one by one and sends them 11.8kReads6.3Score478Shelves
- 150 Yan Bugui of Siheyuan: A Scheme with No Room for Error 四合院阎埠贵的算漏无疑 Yan Zhongjin, a modern man with terminal lung cancer, coughed up blood and died. A jade pendant that had acknowledged him as its master carried his soul back to Forty-Nine City in 1947, where he became Yan Bugui. After transmigrating, Yan Zhongjin discovered a pocket dimension, and its weakened spirit artifact gave him a cultivation technique. The technique required no spiritual energy. Instead, he had to experience the mortal world and absorb various forms of pure energy as he tempered his mind 1.3kReads6.4Score—Shelves
