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- 1 Siheyuan: Adding Stat Points From Infancy 四合院：从婴儿开始加点 Yi Xiaochuan had a carefree childhood, but growing up brought him nothing but the misfortune of knowing too much. An orphan since childhood, he had just begun to get his life on track when his boss worked him to death. Then he became Yi Zhonghai’s son. Born with a congenital condition, he was frail and weak. Just when he thought he would die young, a point-adding System suddenly appeared before him. 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: My Rise to the Top Begins in Infancy 四合院：逆袭从婴儿开始 On an ordinary day, the order of time and space quietly fell into disarray. A soul transmigrated into the world of a period drama filled with the bustle of everyday life and petty disputes, taking over the body of a swaddled baby. Small and helpless, the baby knew nothing of the world, yet was about to begin a turbulent, legendary life amid the shifting fortunes of the Siheyuan. Upon arriving in the courtyard, the swaddled infant was met with coldness and disdain. Everyone in the courtyard se 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: Progressing from the Red Twenty-Fifth Army 四合院：从红二十五开始进步 After transmigrating back to the Dabie Mountains in 1934, amid great upheaval in his family, Fang Yunhai joined the Red Twenty-Fifth Army without hesitation and fought across the country. After the war, he went looking for his family. What? His only remaining relative had gone to the Beast-Filled Siheyuan? 242.3kReads7.6Score18.3kShelves
- 4 Siheyuan: I Never Do Anything Vile 四合院：我从来不干缺德事儿 Chen Liang transmigrated a little too hard. He closed his eyes, opened them again, and found himself in 1959, as an ordinary nobody in a courtyard full of beasts! He had planned to keep his head down and quietly build himself up. But the beasts insisted on offering their faces up for him to slap, so Chen Liang had no choice! In that case, he might as well go all in... (A little fun with the beasts, and some everyday life!) —Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: I Meet Silly Zhu at the Bridge of Hel from the Start 四合院：开局奈何桥前遇傻柱 After He Yu died, he was taken to the underworld. Near the Bridge of Helplessness, he encountered He Yuzhu (Silly Zhu), who was wandering in front of it. As He Yu chatted with Ox-Head about the residents of the courtyard, He Yuzhu suddenly sprang into action, grabbed He Yu, and jumped into the River of Forgetfulness. When He Yu woke up, he discovered that he had transmigrated to 1947, the day He Yuzhu's mother was being buried, and had become a young He Yuzhu. Now watch as the new He Yuzhu aveng 73.5kReads7.5Score5.7kShelves
- 6 Siheyuan: It All Began When Lightning Struck the Ancestral Grave 四合院：从雷劈祖坟开始 While Chang Bu was visiting his parents' graves, the smoke rising from them carried him away, and he transmigrated to the world of the Siheyuan, where he began a life of passing judgment from the moral high ground. I'm a new author, so I hope you kind readers will offer advice if the writing could be better. If you have any ideas, leave a paragraph comment or a review. I'll take your suggestions into account. 3kReads6.5Score104Shelves
- 7 Transmigrating to the Siheyuan: Immortality 穿越四合院之长生 Transmigrate + endless space + multiple heroines + martial arts + immortal cultivation + longevity It begins in a courtyard home, then takes you across the Myriad Worlds. The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Return of the Condor Heroes, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, The Legend of Sword and Fairy, the Primordial World, and then back to the courtyard home. Countless little worlds continue to emerge along the way. See how he builds his own universe, with beautiful 15.6kReads7.3Score851Shelves
- 8 Reborn in 1980: I Snatched the Village Chief Position from My Nephew Qi Zhonghai 重生80我抢了侄子祁中海的村长 A period novel with a slightly different style, and a comedy. The protagonist transmigrates to the countryside and leads the villagers in building the greatest village in the world. Story summary: Wang Shihong wakes up to discover that he has transmigrated to the early days of reform and opening-up, in 1980, and become an eighteen-year-old boy named Qi Yuantu. He then discovers that his predecessor’s grandfather had his father at the age of forty-eight, and his father had him at fifty-eight. As 133Reads—Score102Shelves
- 9 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 293Reads—Score126Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: I'm About to Be Castrated 四合院：我要被噶了 This steel-straight man has no feelings. Lin Dongshan transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. As long as he turns down people trying to win him over, he gets rewards. Qin Huairu: If I can win Lin Dongshan over, I’ll get a System reward. Lou Xia’e, Ran Qiuye, and Yu Li all take their turns. “This steel-straight man has no feelings.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: Starting in the Hard Times of the Countryside 四合院：从农村困难时期开始 [Feel-Good Read] * [Space] * [Period] * [Siheyuan] Also known as: Siheyuan: There Is No End to Putting the Villains in Their Place This is a story about putting the villains in their place. There is no cultivation and no farming. Cultivation and the pocket dimension are just tools to help deal with the beasts. Jiang Tian brings a System pocket dimension with him when he transmigrates to a difficult era. Traveling from the countryside to the capital's Jiusi City, he only discovers upon reaching t 5Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: The Little Sixth Brother Stays Ahead by Stirring Up Trouble 四合院：小老六靠整活遥遥领先 [Lighthearted comedy + no viciousness + everyday life] He transmigrates into the world of a period drama and starts out as a little kid. He binds himself to a mischief-making System and earns rewards whenever he stirs things up. His family is overwhelmingly female, and with the little guy leading the way, their lives flourish, making all the neighbors green with envy. Bang Geng: “I tried learning to fish from you. Why does everyone think I'm stupid now?” Silly Zhu: “To cook a dish like that, you 1.4kReads6.5Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: The Young Red Agent of the Underground Transit Station 四合院：地下交通站的红小鬼 At the age of twelve, Lin Mo distinguished himself with repeated outstanding service to the cause as Beiping was peacefully liberated. With his own System space, he also swept up the Nationalist army's assets and planes across the entire capital. After liberation, he became an auxiliary member of the country's intelligence service, providing vital intelligence time and again in operations to root out enemy spies. Later, he took the post of head of security at a steel mill, tracking down enemy ag 1.2kReads5.7Score—Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu, Are You Sure You're Their Biological Son? 四合院：傻柱你确定你是亲生的吗 After Chen Yang graduated from college, his father, Chen Chen, took him on a road trip to celebrate. They accidentally collided with a heavy truck and both transmigrated to 1935, the year He Yuzhu was born. After transmigrating, the father, Chen Ming, became the young He Daqing. He knew only the history of the Republic of China and nothing about the plot of Love in the Courtyard. His son, Chen Yang, became a baby and He Yuzhu's twin brother, with full knowledge of the characters' tangled relatio 38Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 15 Reborn in the Siheyuan: Taking It Easy and Enjoying the Show 重生四合院，悠闲自在看热闹 [System] [Cunning Trickster] [Not Too Much Bloodlust] [Mostly Everyday Life] [Lots of memes. Hope you enjoy!] After dying from overwork under the 996 schedule, Lin Guoqiang transmigrates into the Four-Unit Courtyard, where he gets a random cheat once a month. Unfortunately, even this tiny courtyard is packed with colorful characters. Watch Lin Guoqiang rely on the System to live a happy life. The blurb can't do it justice. Head straight to the story. 851Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 16 Reincarnated in the Siheyuan, Starting Out Invincible 转生从四合院开始无敌 After Lin Yuan was discovered copying a heaven-defying talent in a reincarnation world, he was hunted down. At the critical moment, he transmigrated from the reincarnation world to a courtyard compound, where he discovered that talents could synergize with one another, creating exponential growth like a perpetual motion machine. Awakened Talent: [Echo Replication] First Talent Copied: [Creation at a Thought] Create a divine kingdom within the depths of the soul. Second Talent Copied: [A Thousand 4.1kReads5.5Score453Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: He Daqing Stays Put, and the Japanese Suffer 四合院：何大清不跑，鬼子倒大霉 After transmigrating nine times and dying every time, the System delivered its final warning: die once more on the tenth try, and your soul will be scattered forever. Fortunately, this time's starter pack was fully loaded: combat skills, a bulletproof vest, a portable storage space, and even a modern mansion with every amenity. He Daqing thought he could finally lie low and stay alive. But when he opened his eyes, it was the thirty-first year of the Republic of China, and Beiping had fallen. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Starting at Eight, I Flee the Famine with My Little Sister in the Siheyuan 四合院从八岁带着妹妹逃荒开始 Li Daniu becomes an eight-year-old boy. His entire family is gone, save for his four-year-old sister. The rest of them starved to death while fleeing famine. Before Liberation, Li Daniu and his sister flee all the way to the capital, to Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. There he realizes he’s in the world of the siheyuan. He settles in with the neighbors, raises his sister, and gets caught up in a series of events with the people around him. 473Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: It Begins with a Copied Soul 四合院：从灵魂被复制开始 The Beast-Filled Courtyard becomes the Widow's Courtyard! It all begins when Lin Feng transmigrates there! His soul is copied by a mysterious cube, which takes him across into the world of a TV drama. The story follows him as he explores and develops the space, and lives in the courtyard. The story isn't heavy on hostility. [Farming + daily life + laid-back] 1.8kReads6.7Score104Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: I Put Every Troublemaker in Their Place 四合院：专治不服 After transmigrating to a courtyard house, he encounters a bunch of heartless beasts. His specialty is teaching the insufferable a lesson. Teaching Qin Huairu a lesson: I remain unmoved by her charms. Teaching Jia Zhangshi a lesson: She sells her daughter-in-law, while I stand tall and righteous. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 This Xu Damao Can’t Show Movies 这个许大茂不会放电影 Xu Lelin finished reading a dark version of a Four-Panel Courtyard novel on the Tomato App. Furious that the author had put Xu Damao, who shared his surname, through so much misery, he left it a one-star rating. Then he woke up as Xu Damao, with none of Xu Damao's memories. Is this some kind of joke? Heaven above, I don't know how to put on a movie!... What, marrying someone other than Lou Xiao'e or Qin Jingru unlocked a bonus world, too? And there's a System shop, martial arts manuals, supernat 3.3kReads6.1Score173Shelves
- 22 Siheyuan: A Nine-Year-Old Orphan's Beginning 四合院，9岁孤儿开始 This isn’t a completely faithful courtyard-house story. I changed things myself, so just think of it as a parallel world. The early chapters were written while I was working, so my thoughts were a bit muddled. You don’t need to think too hard while reading. Finally, thanks to everyone who pointed out the issues. Much appreciated! As for the Japanese invaders, they’ll show up later, and I’ll make sure they get what’s coming to them. At first, the author was just muddleheaded and only remembered t 2.7kReads7.1Score109Shelves
- 23 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Beat Banggeng Until He Was Lame 四合院：开局将棒梗打成瘸子 Without warning, a pocket dimension appeared in Zhao Tongqing's mind. But he felt no joy at all. Instead, he was utterly despondent. At the same time, a bright red twenty-four-hour countdown appeared in his vision, the numbers ticking down second by second! There was no need to think too hard about it. Either the world was counting down to the apocalypse, or he was about to join the ranks of transmigrators. Whether this was a blessing or a curse, he couldn't avoid it now. All he could do was acc 403Reads5.4Score124Shelves
- 24 Siheyuan: It All Begins with Settling Accounts with He Daqing 四合院：从和何大清清算开始 [Slow-paced, a crossover of several period dramas, not too grim, no System, a touch of ensemble cast, immensely satisfying] Read at your own risk After He Yuzhu freezes to death beneath a bridge, fate gives him another chance, and he is reborn. Thinking of all the unfairness he suffered, he resolves to avoid it in this life. He'll stay away from the Jia family, who suck others dry, cut ties with the sanctimonious Yi Zhonghai, and find a wife to have a whole brood of children with. A wife, childr 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: I Found a Pocket Dimension From the Apocalypse 四合院：捡到末世的随身空间 When the zombie horde breached the base, Zhang Wei, a space-ability user in the apocalypse, self-destructed. His soul was swept into a spatial rift and carried to the screen-fiction world of Love in the Courtyard. He tried to possess He Yuzhu, a man with a few screws loose, but He Yuzhu fought back and devoured him instead. After devouring the remnant soul from another world, He Yuzhu's own soul grew immensely stronger, and he also gained the apocalypse ability user's personal storage space. Ins 25Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: I Control the Whole Game, So Don't Mess with Me 四合院：掌控全局，谁也别惹我 Fang Che wakes up from a nap and discovers that he has transmigrated into the world of Birds Fill the Courtyard. Silly Zhu lets Qin Huairu bleed him dry, loving every minute of it because he lusts after a widow. He's destined to die without heirs! First Master Yi acts upright on the surface, but is actually a hypocrite who is all appearances and no virtue! Second Master Liu is ambitious but incompetent, obsessed with becoming an official. He's an unkind father, and his children are unfilial! Thi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 1959: The Foolish Root 年代1959傻根 From the start, he “ate” a transmigrator. Watch Shagen's transformation. I'm not good at writing blurbs, so please head straight to the story. I promise you won't be disappointed. Writing a book isn't easy, and no story can suit everyone's taste. If it's not for you, please go read another great author's work instead. Please don't leave a bad review on purpose. I hope you find a good book. Thank you. 213Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Life as a Rickshaw Puller After Transmigrating to an Age of Famine 穿越饥荒年代当板儿爷的日子 [Non-fanfiction] [Period piece] [Farming] [A sly, unconventional protagonist] An unconventional narrative style. The story begins in 1942, moves into a Beijing courtyard compound in 1951, and reaches its grand climax in 1965. A brand-new courtyard-compound tale, a century-spanning dream of family and country. [Name: Yang Chaosheng] [Identity: Transmigrator] [Golden finger: The Suffering Is a Blessing System] [Portable space: Ten cubic meters] Never wears out. Cannot be upgraded. The widowed, the 2.1kReads7.6Score102Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: At Eight Years Old, I Bring the Entire Courtyard to Heel 四合院：八岁的我，镇压全院 After transmigrating into a Siheyuan, the protagonist's grandfather dies from the start, leaving behind a substantial inheritance. His parents are away for work and cannot be contacted. With a courtyard full of villains and only eight years old, how is a child supposed to survive? Of course, no matter who else has to suffer, he won't let himself go without. If anyone makes life difficult for him, he'll make things even worse for them. Luckily, the System arrives. But is there something wrong wit 4.9kReads7.6Score128Shelves
- 30 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 7.9kReads—Score264Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: From Beasts of Burden to Master Zhu 四合院，从牛马到柱爷 In his previous life, he was drained dry for decades and only saw the truth when he was dying. This time, in 1963, Silly Zhu transmigrates and gets a second chance. With a personal pocket dimension at his disposal, he can grow vegetables, raise pigs, and more. 🔥 The Jia family wants to freeload? Not a chance! 🔥 Yi Zhonghai wants him to support him in his old age? He'd better start by calculating how much he owes! 🔥 Xu Damao stabs him in the back? Silly Zhu gives him a harsh lesson on the spot! 3.5kReads—Score174Shelves
- 32 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Starts Anew After Joining the Power Bureau 四合院：何雨柱从去电业局新开始 [Transmigration + period setting + everyday life + one heroine + striving to build a better life + no angst] If you’re looking for lots of conflict, this isn’t the book for you. There aren’t many fights here, just the everyday lives of ordinary people. “Street stalls are everywhere, and the cooks may or may not be the real deal. Hello, everyone, I’m Lao Tan. This year, we’re going to…” Lao Tan was a master Sichuan chef in the modern twenty-first century. He owned his own restaurant and was among 26.5kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 33 Siheyuan: I’m the Courtyard’s Spiritual Mentor 四合院之我是院里的精神导师 (The rating just came out and is rather low, but it’ll go up later.) Liu Yubin has always believed he was born to live in comfort. Now in his forties and shameless as ever, he transmigrates into the body of a fifteen-year-old boy from Lu Province who happens to share his surname. As the days go by, he discovers that not only are his strength, speed, and other abilities growing stronger every day, but he also has a Pinduoduo trading System that lets him buy and sell things, along with a three-bed 30.6kReads6.9Score2.2kShelves
- 34 Siheyuan: Forced to Go to School, Feast on Meat and Fish Every Day 四合院：被迫上学，天天大鱼大肉 [Moderate Antagonism] + [Half Slice-of-Life, Half Farming] + [Both Parents Get Career Promotions] + [I'm Really a Little Genius] After finally transmigrating into Love in the Courtyard and enjoying eight peaceful years, I'm forced to go to school because I'm old enough. I get a sign-in System that gives me meat and fish every day and helps my parents advance their careers. But the peaceful days are coming to an end. What awaits me now is the daily scheming and infighting of the courtyard. Yi Zho 16kReads6.8Score711Shelves
- 35 I Transmigrated into Siheyuan Too Early 四合院穿越太早 [Siheyuan] [No stealing others’ romantic interests] [No grimdark drama] [No System] [Industrial development] After transmigrating as a beggar, he finds himself in the Siheyuan, a place said to be impossible to overcome. Without a golden finger, what is he supposed to do? He transmigrates into the Siheyuan twenty years early. With a humble background and a young age, all he can do is work hard one step at a time... Welcome to Siheyuan: Twenty Years Early 13.6kReads7.5Score314Shelves
- 36 Siheyuan: Huairu Is Eighteen, and Silly Zhu Calls Her Mom 四合院：淮茹十八，傻柱叫妈 A man’s thirty-one, his prime years, Qin Huairu’s just turned eighteen. Dongxu next door, why are you crying? Yuzhu and Yushui need a mom. He transmigrates to 1951 and becomes He Daqing, the father of Sha Zhu. When the widow Bai tries to drag him off to Baoding, He Daqing firmly refuses and promptly steals Qin Huairu away from her blind date with Jia Dongxu. Jia Dongxu cries, “Uncle He, she’s my girl!” He Daqing says, “Dongxu, Yuzhu and Yushui need a mom, and I’ve got it rough too. You’re still 8.3kReads7.6Score627Shelves
- 37 Siheyuan: Make a Choice and Reap Insane Rewards 四合院：做出选择，奖励麻了 Liu Zhiming transmigrates to a courtyard house in 1952. His family of three is poor, hungry, thirsty, sick, and on the verge of death. He activates a choice System. Every choice he makes earns him a reward. He chooses to go fishing with Third Master and catches dozens of pounds of fish. He chooses to learn cooking alongside He Yuzhu and gains mastery of the culinary arts. He chooses to go on a blind date with Jia Dongxu and wins Qin Huairu. He chooses to save a child from a fire and gains the ba —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: Jia Dongxu, the Root of All Evil 四合院之万恶之源贾东旭 What would you buy if you could take 250,000 yuan worth of supplies back to 1950? Zhou Wenbin unexpectedly gets the chance to travel through time. He can take 250,000 yuan worth of supplies back to Nanluoguxiang in 1950. As long as he changes the story, he can return to the real world, and he can also bring back anything he acquires in the world of the Siheyuan. Thus begins an extraordinary journey. 1.2kReads7.4Score101Shelves
- 39 Siheyuan: What Could a Little Kid Like Me Possibly Do Wrong? 四合院：我一个小孩能有什么坏心 What bad intentions could a little kid like me possibly have? After finally transmigrating, both my parents were here and my family was happy. Why would I have bad intentions? He Yushui has it pretty rough. She's our neighbor and a year older than me, so looking out for her is only right. He Yuzhu is He Yushui's brother, so helping him out while I'm at it is only right too. So why are you upset, Yi Zhonghai? That doesn't make sense. What bad intentions could a little kid like me possibly have? T 12.9kReads7.3Score412Shelves
- 40 Reborn in 1958, and It's Actually A Life Full of Sunshine!!! 重生五八，居然是情满！！！ [This book has a courtyard setting, a personal space, multiple heroines, and changes to the original plot. If you don’t like that, don’t read it!] On a Sunday, I went out for a massage and, in a freak accident, transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard. I gained a personal space that could grow and change over time, where I could raise animals and grow plants. I formed deep bonds with Lou Xiao'e, Qin Huairu, Qin Jingru, Yu Li, Yu Haitang, He Yushui, and several other women. I came up 22Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: I Make Jia Zhangshi My Godmother 四合院之我认贾张氏当干妈 An ordinary office drone from the 21st century transmigrates into 1950s Beijing. Other transmigrators get farming Systems, Systems that exchange points for advanced technology, cultivation, portals between worlds, and so on. But all he gets is the so-called “Strongest” System. No advanced technology to exchange for, and no firearms either. And a jin of rice costs 5 yuan, a jin of flour costs 5 yuan, instant noodles cost 5 yuan, and a jin of ham sausage still costs 5 yuan. That’s 5 yuan in 1950s 874Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Jia Dongxu, I’m Qin Huairu’s Backer! 贾东旭，我是秦淮茹的靠山！ [Light System + Courtyard Drama + Feel-Good Story + Fanfiction + Low Conflict + Family Bonds] Jia Xu, an orphan who couldn’t even afford to get married in the modern world, accidentally transmigrates into the TV drama Love in the Courtyard, taking over Jia Dongxu’s body. He changes Qin Huai’s difficult life as a lonely widow with no one to rely on, and in turn changes the fate of everyone in the Jia family and the lives of the entire courtyard. Set in a turbulent era, the story reflects the posi 14.8kReads7.9Score874Shelves
- 43 Siheyuan: My Brother-in-Law Silly Zhu Wants to Borrow Grain? Give Him a Beating 四合院：大舅哥傻柱要借粮？揍他 Jiang Tai transmigrates into the world of the courtyard house and saves He Yushui from drowning. After giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he becomes Silly Zhu’s brother-in-law! Now that things have come to this, the bewildered Jiang Tai can only go along with it! To keep his brother-in-law from freezing to death under a bridge, Jiang Tai reluctantly sets about correcting Silly Zhu’s pathetic doormat behavior! One word: “Do it.” Two words: “Beat him up.” Three words: “Knock them all down!” 341Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Siheyuan: I Ruin the Jias and Serve My Country in Hong Kong 四合院：坑贾清禽，香江报国 Zhou Mo was an outstanding young man of the twenty-first century, though he had none of the usual advantages. After dying suddenly from overwork, his soul transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard. From the start, he ran into Jia Zhangshi trying to seize his home. Watch as Zhou Mo gradually finds the right ending for everyone in the courtyard... 1.4kReads5.6Score100Shelves
- 45 Siheyuan: I Can Issue Quests! 四合院：我能发布任务！ Yu Xiaotian, from the twenty-first century, accidentally transmigrates to a courtyard house in 1960 and becomes the youngest son of Yu Zheng, a level-seven fitter at the steel mill. It’s a time of famine. His family isn’t well-off, but they get by. One older brother is a fitter at the steel mill, and the other works as a postal carrier. Yet Yi Zhonghai, who lives in the courtyard, is always trying to guilt the Yu family into helping the impoverished Jia family and Deaf Granny’s household. Just t 451Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 46 Siheyuan: Asura 四合院之修罗 A martial arts champion dies suddenly from overtraining and is reborn in the body of an eleven-year-old boy. To avenge his family, he fights the Japanese to the death, killing until they tremble in fear. With a powerful golden finger and help from kindhearted people, every time he acts, things go as smoothly as a fish in water. 9.2kReads8.9Score377Shelves
- 47 Professor X: Silly Zhu! Accept My Gift! X教授：傻柱！接受我的馈赠吧！ Professor X senses the Dark Phoenix taking over Jean Grey’s body and goes alone to reason with her, but the berserk Phoenix Force shatters his physical form. At death’s door, his mind rides a rift in space and time torn open by the Phoenix Force and plunges into the world of Love in the Courtyard. His consciousness enters He Yuzhu’s mindscape, only to run into the embodiment of fate entrenched within: “A Simp Gets No House.” Moved by He Yuzhu’s fate of hardship and mistreatment, the professor 1.9kReads7.3Score105Shelves
- 48 Survival in the Siheyuan Courtyard 四合院求生记 “Everyone thinks it, including Yi Zhonghai: that I'm scheming this and that to secure my retirement. But who among them knows that you all died at the hands of your own people? That's why I'm going to take revenge on everyone.” 1.6kReads5.5Score—Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: Jia Zhangshi With a One-Hit-Kill System 四合院之带着秒杀系统的贾张氏 {Era setting + slice of life + ensemble cast + everyday family matters} A modern office worker transmigrates into the TV drama Love in the Courtyard and suddenly finds herself more than ten years older. She never had a moment to rest amid the hectic pace of modern life, but after transmigrating to this extraordinary era with a one-hit-kill space, she becomes Jia Zhangshi. She declares that she has no intention of working hard for the rest of her life. To enjoy a comfortable retirement and change 21.9kReads8.1Score1.7kShelves
- 50 Siheyuan: Jia Geng's Survival Guide 四合院：贾梗生存指南 [Scheming] [Master of playing the long game] [No bloodlust] [Tight logic] How did I end up as Bang Geng? Before I could even get used to this little body, disaster struck at the steel mill: Jia Dongxu was dead. A crushing blow, a disastrous start from the start. What the hell is this unlucky kid supposed to do now? The family is so poor their teeth are chattering, but the heart beating in Jia Geng's chest belongs to a soul from another era. I'm not here to accept my fate. I'm here to turn things 1.4kReads—Score128Shelves
