Novels like Siheyuan: Model Worker at the Steel Mill, Driving the Beasts Crazy
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- 1 Siheyuan: Kicking Jia Zhangshi and Slapping Yi Zhonghai 四合院：脚踹贾张氏，掌掴易中海 Li Yang transmigrates to the Four-Nine City of 1957, into the beast-filled courtyard of Love in the Courtyard. His father was a squad leader in the steel mill's security department. He died on duty while capturing a spy, leaving Li Yang and his younger sister behind. Just after Li Yang finishes handling his father's funeral, Jia Zhangshi comes knocking, asking to borrow the house and his father's pension money, and even trying to snatch his food. Li Yang kicks her straight out the door. Yi Zhong 13.5kReads5.8Score66914d adds
- 2 Siheyuan: Pummeling Yi Zhonghai and Slapping Qin Huairu Away 四合院，暴揍易中海，扇飞秦淮茹 I transmigrated into the role of He Yuzhu in The Beast-Filled Courtyard. His father, He Daqing, ran off, and everything edible and useful in the house was stolen overnight. But he’s not the Silly Zhu from his previous life. He has a System, yet Yi Zhonghai still thinks he can brainwash him. Yi Zhonghai: Silly Zhu, your father ran off with a widow. He Yuzhu: What? You’re asking for a beating? One kick sends him flying. Qin Huairu: How dare you hit Uncle Yi? He Yuzhu: Want to fly too? One slap sen 42.1kReads6.2Score2.5k14d adds
- 3 Siheyuan: Beating Up Yi Zhonghai, He Yuzhu Flips the Table 四合院：揍易中海，何雨柱掀桌子 On Lunar New Year's Eve in 2026, He Zhu, a high-quality bachelor past his prime, gets drunk and transmigrates into Silly Zhu from Love in the Courtyard, set in 1960. It's right around dinnertime on New Year's Eve. Brainwashed by Yi Zhonghai, Silly Zhu spends money on meat and vegetables and works hard all day to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. He invites the Yi family, Deaf Granny, and the entire Jia family to celebrate together. But Jia Zhangshi eats all the meat and vegetables on the table 63.1kReads6.4Score4.8k14d adds
- 4 Siheyuan: Reborn in 1965, I Rely on the System 四合院：重生1965，我靠系统 In the 1960s, a courtyard beside a steel mill is full of chaos and scheming. Chen Weiguo is reborn with memories of his past life, and sees through everyone in the courtyard from the start. Sweet and naive? A bleeding heart? Not a chance! This time, he has a god-tier self-interest System: he won't cause trouble, won't back down from it, and won't take the fall for anyone. He takes on the worst people, protects his family, builds his career, and makes money. Anyone who tries to scheme against him 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Siheyuan: After Being Reborn, I Can Open a Blind Box Every Day 四合院：重生后我能天天开盲盒 Protagonist: Zhao Lei; Role: An unemployed street loafer, a marginal member of the Zhao family, unloved by both parents Golden finger: Blind Box System Goal: Lie flat every day, with food and drink aplenty and no need to work Synopsis: Zhao Lei grew up as a left-behind child in his previous life. By an unexpected twist of fate, he is reborn in 1959 while staying at a hotel. It is the first year of the natural disasters, and as a modern young man used to having plenty to eat and drink, he absolut 36.3kReads6.4Score1.8k14d adds
- 6 Siheyuan: I Ruin Silly Zhu and Wipe Out the Whole Bunch 四合院：废了傻柱，全灭众禽 From the start, he breaks Silly Zhu's right hand. After finding out how the Sixth Man System determines its verdict, he deals with the beasts by chapter 100. Silly Zhu ends up begging on the streets with all five limbs broken. Seriously, trust me, bro. 17.3kReads6.1Score59014d adds
- 7 Reborn as Silly Mao: Sending Banggeng to Juvenile Detention from the Start 傻茂重生，开局送棒梗儿进少管所 “Drawing Sword,” “Under the Zhengyang Gate,” “The Little Woman Under the Zhengyang Gate,” “Snow Leopard,” “Hutong,” “The Age of Galloping,” “Man Is Iron, Rice Is Steel,” “Glory Era” Xu Damao is reborn on the very day Banggeng steals a chicken. He sends the thief's whole family to prison, gets the Lou family out of town, and begins his unstoppable comeback! 2.3kReads—Score10014d adds
- 8 Siheyuan: Bully a Martyr’s Family? From the Start, Silly Zhu Goes to Prison 四合院：欺辱烈属？开局傻柱进牢 A nineteen-year-old boy whose parents are both dead is cheated out of his family inheritance. After unlocking a golden finger, watch as he fights back, deals with the vile scoundrels, and finds a way to live well. With an Emotion Collection System, what will he do to gather enough emotion points? How will the fate of the courtyard change? 31.1kReads6.4Score1k14d adds
- 9 Myriad Realms: From the Start in Siheyuan, I Rise to the Supreme 万界之开局四合院，万界成至高 A new story is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 19.3kReads7.4Score69714d adds
- 10 Siheyuan: A Carpenter Moves into the Courtyard 四合院：院里来了个木匠 He transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard and becomes a level-two carpenter, one of the Eight Great Tradesmen. Faced with the whole courtyard full of scheming neighbors, Jiang Chen just wants to live in peace. You can plot your schemes, and I'll live my life. When Qin Huairu comes over to borrow something, he makes her write an IOU. When Jia Zhangshi throws a tantrum and refuses to take no for an answer, he reports her to the authorities. When Xu Damao tries to sow discord, Jiang Chen shuts 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Siheyuan: Getting Rich Quietly 四合院：闷声发大财 Courtyard Life #Period Fiction #Comedy #Feel-Good Fiction #Old Fox #Harem #Farming Fiction He transmigrated to 1952 and became Chen Yuanshan, an apprentice at Fengzeyuan. His father was a martyr and left him 13 million in old currency and two main rooms. He thought he could lie flat, but the courtyard was full of beasts. Jia Zhangshi sat on the ground every day, wailing, “Old Jia! Someone’s bullying me!” Silly Zhu called every woman “Sister Qin” and beat up Xu Damao whenever he saw him. Xu Damao 15.5kReads5.3Score48414d adds
- 12 Siheyuan: I Wield My Brush and Stir Up the Storm 四合院：执笔搅风云 Reborn in 1952, Wang Ping'an transmigrates to Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. Alone in the world, he seems like a timid, easily bullied orphan to his neighbors. He makes a living writing articles and stories, often drawing on the people and events in the courtyard for inspiration. Anyone who deliberately gives him a hard time or schemes against him ends up as a villain in one of his stories, and the rumors soon spread throughout the entire compound. Everyone assumes he is a helpless writer, 8.6kReads5.4Score25414d adds
- 13 Siheyuan: I Take Yi Zhonghai to Task and Demand 6,000 Yuan 四合院：手撕易中海，逼赔六千块 Chen Wangshan is a transmigrator. He has transmigrated into a notorious courtyard house from across the myriad heavens, full of beasts. No endless bickering back and forth. He'll teach those beasts how to behave by using the law. A new author with a new work. Please go easy on me, dear readers! A fist salute! Thank you! (The rating just came out and will rise later, so please read with confidence.) 83.7kReads5.5Score3.8k14d adds
