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- 51 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 758Reads6.3Score10514d adds
- 52 Siheyuan: Reborn, I Won't Indulge Anyone 四合院：重生后我不惯任何人 [Siheyuan fan fiction + Period setting + technical focus + clear-headed and rational + no saintly do-gooder + putting the beasts in their place] Engineer Zhou Mingyuan died suddenly after working overtime nonstop. When he opened his eyes, he had become a twenty-four-year-old Grade Seven fitter at the Hongxing Steel Mill. His predecessor had no parents, was honest and taciturn, and had been manipulated by Yi Zhonghai into providing for him in his old age. The Jia family treated him like free labo 166Reads—Score13014d adds
- 53 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 23.7kReads8.4Score1.9k14d adds
- 54 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
- 55 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
- 56 Siheyuan: The Little Miracle Doctor 四合院之：小神医 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 1.2kReads7.2Score10914d adds
- 57 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 380Reads5.4Score24014d adds
- 58 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Knocked Over Yi Zhonghai and Deaf Granny 四合院：开局打翻易中海聋老太 Pure feel-good power fantasy, pure feel-good power fantasy, pure feel-good power fantasy No swallowing insults, no fawning over anyone, entirely handmade, with no AI involved. A hotel chef from the 21st century transmigrates into Li Xiangdong, a cook in the canteen of Courtyard No. 95 in 1959. When the canteen supervisor position is up for grabs, Silly Zhu loses the competition and grows resentful, then shows up at Li Xiangdong's door to smash the place up. Yi Zhonghai rushes over with Deaf Gra 29.1kReads8.1Score1.7k14d adds
- 59 In the Siheyuan, I Turned Out to Be Silly Zhu 四合院，傻柱竟是我自己 When I opened my eyes again, I had become He Yuzhu. The “Foolish Zhu” who was bullied by everyone in the courtyard, drained by Qin Huairu, sabotaged by Xu Damao, and used as a pawn by Yi Zhonghai. Before me, Yi Zhonghai held a bowl of wine and said, “Your father was no good,” while hiding his schemes behind his eyes. In the inner room, my six-year-old sister, He Yushui, had cried herself to sleep on an empty stomach. She wasn’t even allowed to sit down at the table and eat. Outside the window, p 360Reads—Score614d adds
- 60 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—Score10114d adds
- 61 You Were Told to Choose an Identity and Go Undercover, and You Picked Masseuse? 让你选个身份潜伏，你选推拿大夫 Espionage + multiple female leads + lighthearted daily life + everyone is scheming + fanfiction based on spy dramas. This is a spy-drama fanfiction featuring The Disguiser, The Message, Sparrow, Red, Rouge, Shanghai Bund, The Disguiser, A Servant of Two Masters, Before the Dawn, and Sniper, among others. Chen Qing, a useless rich second-generation heir, is reborn in Shanghai in 1939 and becomes a low-ranking liaison at a Juntong contact station. The male lead opens a traditional Chinese medicine 49.4kReads6.6Score5k14d adds
- 62 Transmigrating Into Love in the Courtyard: He Yuzhu Defies Fate and Changes His Life 穿越情满四合院：何雨柱逆天改命 Reborn as Silly Zhu? From the start, I'll overturn the whole compound's dinner table! Other people who became He Yuzhu ended up serving as Yi Zhonghai's dutiful son for free, being the Jia family's cash cow for life, and finally failing to protect even their own sister. I became He Yuzhu with the Almighty Chef Sign-In System, and from the start, I stopped He Daqing from running away! Yi Zhonghai wants to pocket my living expenses and use me to support him in his old age? First, give back every c 76.6kReads6.3Score5.7k14d adds
- 63 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 4kReads5.6Score16314d adds
- 64 Siheyuan: The Medical Drama of Jinghua 四合院：京华医影 In 1950s Beijing, the courtyard house is a microcosm of society, where winds rise beneath the eaves and waves surge in people’s hearts. Yun Xiao, a skilled emergency physician with two master’s degrees, moves into this little courtyard, armed with medical expertise enhanced by the System and a clear-eyed understanding of how to deal with people. He stands his ground against Jia Zhangshi’s provocations and exposes Yi Zhonghai’s schemes, making his place amid the everyday squabbles. He races again 484Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Siheyuan: Women Use Up Supplies, Get Ten Times Back 四合院：女人消耗物资，十倍返还 The rating just came out and will rise after a while, so please be patient as you read. [Body transmigration] [Specializes in dealing with scoundrels] [Multiple heroines, don’t read if you dislike that] [Outlandish from the start] [More Children, More Blessings] [Saintly types, keep away] [Crossover with film and television dramas + original heroine] This book is so outrageous, it defies description. 86.7kReads8.0Score8.8k14d adds
- 66 Siheyuan: I Protect the Destiny of the Dragon Kingdom 四合院：我为龙国镇国运 Transmigrated to 1956, Bullied by the Whole Courtyard from the Start? No Problem, I Have a Bugged System! In 1956, in a Beijing courtyard house known as Red Star Courtyard. Eighteen-year-old Lin Chen inherits his late father’s home. As the son of a fallen national hero, he should be honored, yet a bunch of awful neighbors bully him so badly they practically take a dump on his head! Jia Zhangshi wants to steal his house? He’ll make her kneel and call him Dad! Qin Huairu wants to freeload? He’ll 43Reads—Score10314d adds
- 67 Siheyuan: From Trouble-Maker and Gossip-Lover to Director Lin 四合院：从祸害拱火吃瓜成林主任 The rating just came in, so don't worry, it'll rise [Siheyuan] [Comedy] [System] [One Female Lead] [Takes Down the Whole Courtyard] Lin Xiao transmigrates and binds himself to the [Gossip Exchange System]. The villagers see him as a menace. They pool their money to send the jinx away, selling their pots and pans to get him a job at a steel mill in the capital. He couldn't be happier: what could be better than heading to the city to lie flat and enjoy the gossip? The happier the villagers are to 15.5kReads6.2Score60814d adds
- 68 Siheyuan: Get Taken Advantage of and Receive Ten Thousandfold Returns 四合院：被占便宜万倍返还 [Feel-good harem novel] [Fast-paced] [No high moral standards] [Does not interfere with the course of history] Chen Yang suddenly acquired a System that repaid every advantage taken from him a thousandfold. From then on, he had more supplies than he could ever use or eat. The neighbors thought they could take advantage of him for free? No! There’s no such thing as a free deal! Jia Zhangshi steals relief grain? Straight to labor camp! Yi Zhonghai bullies me? I’ll ruin his reputation and have him 25.4kReads7.5Score2.1k14d adds
- 69 You Told Me to Leave the Army, and Now You’re Stealing Lou Xiao’e? 让你退伍，你截胡娄晓娥？ [Four-Panel Courtyard + stealing someone else's match + System + tormenting the courtyard's beasts + everyday life in a bygone era + decisive and ruthless] Lin Chen returned to the Four-Panel Courtyard after leaving the military. He was a modest man and hadn't yet reported to the steel mill, but everyone in the courtyard took him for a penniless loser who couldn't even find a wife. Xu Damao, who lived in the front courtyard, was strutting around and loudly announcing that he was about to marry L 281Reads—Score12614d adds
- 70 Since I'm Here, I Might as Well Live It Up in the Sixties 来到来了，60年代也要浪一浪 Song Yuwen transmigrated to 1959 and became Song Dabao, who had fallen into the water. He now had a big family, and every one of them was talented. Thanks to them, he avoided many detours in life. To make money, he started out fishing, then sold popsicles. After landing a job as a purchasing agent, he spent his days thinking about how to profit from black-market trading. By a stroke of luck, he even became a train security officer. And so Song Dabao began shuttling between the Northeast, Beijing 12.5kReads7.5Score88514d adds
- 71 Starting in 1948: The Sixth Brother’s Life of Adventure 从1948开始，老六的纵横人生 Lin Yu was once a top investment adviser who could move markets on Wall Street. After a car accident, he finds himself inhabiting the body of the eldest son of the Lin family in the Forty-Nine City of 1948. The moment he opens his eyes, he witnesses his entire family being slaughtered by rogue soldiers, and is himself run through the heart with a bayonet. At the brink of death, the Infinite Space System activates, granting him not only the abilities of a top special forces soldier from 2026, but 14.9kReads6.5Score95314d adds
- 72 Siheyuan: My Space Can't Be Upgraded 四合院：我的空间不能升级 (Some details are fictionalized for the sake of the plot and do not fully reflect objective reality. Thank you for understanding. Love you all.) Dong Simeng transmigrated to 1965. Faced with the vile people who had coveted her late parents' compensation money, she showed no mercy. Xu Damao, you had an affair with Qin Jingru, hurt Lou Xiao'e, and even wanted to report the Lou family? I'll send you to meet God. Second Master, you wanted to hitch a ride with Xu Damao and snag yourself an official p 37Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 73 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—14d adds
- 74 Siheyuan: Yi Zhonghai Seeks Medical Help, So I Slap Him First 四合院：易中海求医，先抽一嘴巴 [A little edge, humor and comedy, everyday family life, slow-paced, multiple women] Wang Yaowen transmigrates to a courtyard house in the early 1950s, awakens the Healer System, and gets a job at the steel mill infirmary. Yi Zhonghai comes by for medical treatment? Then he’d better take a slap first... The deaf old lady is bedridden? Could she be pregnant...? Jia Dongxu is going on a blind date? Let plump, gentle Qin Huairu into my bed first... No big ambitions. I’ll lie flat and enjoy a comfort 32.8kReads6.8Score2.3k14d adds
- 75 Siheyuan: Promoted to Level-Six Fitter from the Start 四合院：开局晋升六级钳工 After Yang Jianjun died, he was reborn in a parallel world, in Love in the Courtyard, as an ordinary resident of the courtyard. The shock of his father's death awakened his memories of a past life. He expected a golden finger to appear, but never imagined it would take so long to show up. With no other choice, Yang Jianjun worked hard at his studies and honed his skills, gradually raising his fitter rank. It took him just seven years to become a Level 6 fitter, and then the System finally activa 74Reads5.3Score1214d adds
- 76 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 11.8kReads6.3Score47814d adds
- 77 Siheyuan: Jia Dongxu's Life 四合院之贾东旭的生活 [Low on angst, funny, courtyard life, slow burn, slice of life!] What if Jia hadn't ended up hanging on the wall, what if He Yushui had a godmother, what if Yi Zhonghai became a mill donkey, and what if Jia Zhangshi stopped trying to summon spirits? Someone is reborn into Love in the Courtyard. Yan the miser can no longer work out his abacus, Yi Zhonghai turns into a lazy couch potato, and Liu Haizhong gradually becomes a useless fool! The scheming white lotus becomes an honest person, Bang Geng 14.5kReads8.4Score76614d adds
- 78 Siheyuan: Bang Geng's Wicked Stepfather 四合院：棒梗的恶毒继父 In 1961, Feng Jiahe had just transmigrated into a courtyard house full of troublemakers. After saving a leader’s daughter, he was rewarded with two rooms. Then, after Jia Dongxu died, he was set up in a honey trap. Qin Huairu comes to his door under a false pretext, then cries out that he forced himself on her. How can he get out of this mess? Simple: play along with their scheme and turn the tables on them. Longtime readers know that my stories have always focused on tormenting the Jia family, 12.9kReads7.2Score64814d adds
- 79 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
- 80 Siheyuan: The Coin's Lie-Flat Life 四合院：硬币的躺平生活 I live in a courtyard house. I have a System, a family, and a job, but I have no ambition. Shi Lei never wanted a life that wore him out. After transmigrating, he quickly figured out exactly what kind of life he wanted. Work? Just slack off. No need to strive for success. Money? Earn what you can, but don't get greedy. Life? Keep it simple. No need for too much excitement. So as for the troublemakers in the courtyard, if they don't provoke him, they can all get along just fine. Otherwise, Shi Le 100.7kReads6.8Score7.4k14d adds
- 81 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 13.1kReads5.8Score63914d adds
- 82 Siheyuan: My New Life 四合院，我的新生 In middle age, a sudden calamity struck. His only son went astray, and after getting out of prison became obsessed with gambling and secretly borrowed from loan sharks. Overcome with rage, he coughed up blood and passed out. At the hospital, he was diagnosed with a grave illness and told he had little time left. Unwilling to burden his wife just to cling to life for another three to five years, he chose to leap from a cliff and end it all. But a passing streak of light caught him in its wake, re 9.3kReads7.9Score35114d adds
- 83 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
- 84 Siheyuan: A Man and a Dog Transmigrate 四合院：一人一狗的穿越 A period-drama courtyard + a man and his dog reborn + a cunning protagonist + suspense + sowing discord until the Yan father and son turn against each other + sending Yi Zhonghai off to the northwest to eat sand. Chen Guoqiang and his big yellow dog are reborn in 1965 at Courtyard No. 96, Nanluoguxiang, where a series of hilarious mishaps unfold. The blurb isn’t doing it justice, so please head straight to the story. 1.2kReads5.5Score—14d adds
- 85 Transmigrating Into a Spy War: From the Start, I Became a Japanese Military Policeman 穿越谍战，开局我成鬼子宪兵 Wei Zihao transmigrates to the Republic of China era and becomes the only heir to the Wei family of Shanghai. To cozy up to the Japanese invaders, his father sends him to join the military police as a Chinese collaborator. After seeing the previous owner's memories, Wei Zihao can only say four words: “He deserves to die.” But he has only just transmigrated, and he has also acquired a “Face-Changing” System, so he isn't about to die easily. After all, wouldn't it be better to make the Japanese in 3.4kReads7.7Score27214d adds
- 86 He Yushui's Happy Life 何雨水的幸福生活 A new story is here, and everyone is welcome to read! It follows a modern-day rich young woman who accidentally transmigrates into a Beijing courtyard compound and gains a sign-in System. Using the skills, supplies, and foresight she gets from the System, she takes on the beasts in the compound and changes her fate. She stops Yu Li from being snatched away from Silly Zhu, and in 1958, the He family moves out of the compound. He Yushui safely makes it through the years of famine with the help of 17.9kReads8.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 87 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Devour the Poultry of the Courtyard 四合院：开局吃了众禽绝户 [No More Suffering] [Moderately Ruthless] [Invincible Male Lead] [Pocket Dimension] [Torturing the Courtyard Beasts] [No Relationship Drama] Li Zhengqing, a modern-day office drudge, transmigrates into the body of a young man from Li Village in the Red Star Commune, in the parallel-world setting of Love in the Courtyard. From the start, he receives a letter from the capital: his uncle, who worked at the steel mill, died in a workplace accident, and Li Zhengqing is to inherit his house and job. B 9.8kReads8.3Score35214d adds
- 88 Siheyuan: I Snatched Qin Huairu, Leaving Jia Dongxu Weeping 四合院，截胡秦淮茹，哭晕贾东旭 (The rating has just come out and will rise later.) Read with confidence: updates are guaranteed to be steady, and the story delivers plenty of satisfying moments. [Low angst] [Multiple Heroines] [Awakens a God-Tier Intercepting System] After transmigrating into a courtyard house, Yu Rui is a Level Four factory doctor from the start. The System issues its first mission: intercept Qin Huairu. Reward: ten gold bars and an activated portable space. Yu Rui doesn’t hesitate for a second before claimi 10kReads6.1Score89914d adds
- 89 Siheyuan: Supply and Marketing Cooperative Director, Snatching Qin Huairu 四合院：供销社主任，截胡秦淮茹 [Wishing all exam candidates top marks and a fortune-filled future] [Low on angst] [Keyword Stealing System] He returns to 1952 and becomes the head of a supply and marketing cooperative! What do those eight public service jobs have on me? They can’t hold a candle to the head of my cooperative! While everyone else can’t even get a steamed corn bun, Shen Weiguo awakens the Stealing System and lives like a king. “What was the name of the girl who went on a matchmaking date with Jia Dongxu?” “Qin H 657Reads5.4Score35914d adds
- 90 Siheyuan: Stop Pretending! Your System Is Mine 四合院：别装咯！你的系统是我的 [System] [All Skills Learned by Hand] [Some Dark Edges] [Pure Plunder-Based Growth] A spy System! A grievance-collecting System! A two-world transmigration System! A sign-in System! A beauty-collecting System! Lin Yuan had originally wanted to laze around. But after accidentally plundering a spy System and discovering it came with all sorts of benefits, as well as the need for energy, he had no choice but to keep plundering! Afterward, he used the various skills rewarded by the System to make en 1.1kReads—Score15014d adds
- 91 Siheyuan: My Dad Is the Deputy Chief of the Police Station 四合院：我爸是派出所副所长 I’m only sixteen, and you want me to get married? I have a farm, and you expect me to eat cornbread? I can’t stomach it. Qin Huairu wants me to give her meat? Then Banggeng can take my surname. He Yuzhu had a dream. When he woke up, he was no longer the old Silly Zhu. Want to suck me dry? Dream on. Jia Dongxu didn’t die, but both his legs were broken. Master Guan, the Ninth Gate Commander, is my master. Han Chunming is my junior apprentice. So what if I collect antiques? 7.7kReads7.9Score39714d adds
- 92 Siheyuan: I Became He Yushui's Boyfriend 四合院：我成了何雨水对象 Zhao Zheng transmigrates into a Siheyuan and becomes a beat cop. By chance, he rescues He Yushui, a neighbor from the middle courtyard, and never expects that from then on, the girl will fall for him. 468Reads7.2Score25314d adds
- 93 In Siheyuan, I Got Chen Xueru into Bed While Drunk from the Start 人在四合院，开局酒后拿下陈雪茹 From the start, Cai Quanwu transmigrated into his new life as himself, but unexpectedly ended up with Chen Xueru after getting drunk. He awakened an apprentice-recruiting System, and soon everyone in the capital wanted to become his disciple. When he saw the crowd of would-be disciples nearly forcing their way through his front door, Cai Quanwu reluctantly changed the rules for becoming his apprentice: “Before, anyone who became my apprentice had to spend three years as an apprentice, serve for 1.5kReads6.6Score10814d adds
- 94 The Courtyard Through Wind and Rain 风雨四合院 This is a traditional southern-style courtyard house. Past the front gate is a covered passage, then an open courtyard, followed by the main hall. Side rooms stand on either side, and side doors at the main hall lead to the rear kitchen. There is another courtyard in the back. In the south, this kind of house is called a two-courtyard, two-hall residence. One courtyard house bears witness to half a century of love and resentment across three generations. This small home has seen the growth of th 5.8kReads9.3Score20114d adds
- 95 I Transmigrated to a Siheyuan and Married a Widow from the Start 穿越四合院，开局入赘娶寡妇 Zhao Chenhua transmigrated. His soul had traveled to a courtyard house in 1961. But after receiving the original owner’s memories, he was stunned. He was from the countryside. After three years of famine, he had nearly starved to death before fleeing to the capital. To survive, he agreed to marry into a family living in the courtyard house. Any children they had would have to take the wife’s surname, and he had even signed an agreement: if her whole family was dissatisfied with him, he would hav 5.1kReads7.6Score28614d adds
- 96 A Quiet Life in the Siheyuan World 在四合院世界安静生活 A slow-burn story about an ordinary life, with no overpowered golden finger. Take your time, dear readers. After accidentally saving someone, he transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan. He only wanted to live a peaceful life. But all sorts of complicated troubles keep cropping up around him. Dear readers, come along with me into Xu Changping’s 1960s. 12.4kReads6.4Score42514d adds
- 97 Espionage: Every Female Agent Is My Informant 谍战：女特务都是我的内线 [Espionage + Multiple Heroines + System + Hearing Their Inner Thoughts] Whenever he comes into contact with a beautiful woman, he learns her memories, experiences, inner thoughts, schemes, and secrets, giving him leverage over her. Handsome and devilishly charming, he lies low in enemy territory and finds himself surrounded by one romantic encounter after another, as if he were strolling through a land of women. He cons and deceives, spinning one outrageous tale after another until the enemy's f 2.3kReads7.2Score17514d adds
- 98 Ma Liu's Daily Life in the Siheyuan 马六的四合院日常 That year, Silly Zhu hadn't become a sucker yet. That year, Yi Zhonghai wasn't in a rush to find someone to support him in his old age. That year... The story begins when Ma Liu was fifteen and started working. I wrote this just to vent a little. Please forgive me if it's not very good. 32kReads6.6Score1.3k14d adds
- 99 Siheyuan: I Carry a Supermarket System 四合院之随身带着超市系统 Wang San, a corporate drone from the 21st century, transmigrates into another world for the third time. He opens his eyes to find a home with nothing but four bare walls. He overhears his parents talking: the Japanese haven't left yet? But he looks at his little body and realizes there's nothing he can do. He studies hard for years, finally graduating from high school at sixteen and preparing to start work, when the supermarket System arrives. Wang San breaks down in tears. “System, why did you 18.3kReads6.9Score85114d adds
- 100 Siheyuan: I Do Whatever I Want! 四合院，我为所欲为！ Multiple heroines + self-interest + no troublemaking in the courtyard + officialdom + slow-burn development Timeline: The Courtyard + The Wreath at the Foot of the Mountain + In the Name of the People Promoted in the 1960s, offered protection and sent to work as an editor in Shanghai in the 1970s. Dismissed in the late 1970s, he moves to Hong Kong, then returns to China in the 1990s. This book doesn’t punish the vile characters in the courtyard. The difference in status is too great, and the pro 9.4kReads—Score28714d adds
