The Passionate Years Beyond the Siheyuan
火红年代：四合院外的激情岁月
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- Ongoing
- Length
- 3.9M Words
- Genre
- Urban
- Subgenre
- Urban Life
- Updated
- 2d ago
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An Older Reader's Currently Reading List
Fifteen years of web novels, collected in a personal reading list. Add as many as you like: these are all books I've read or am currently reading and enjoyed.
🌱 Old Bookworms' Ranting Club 🌱 Urban Stories, Family Cultivation!
A veteran bookworm with over twenty years of reading! In 2003, wuxia was king. I discovered Liang, Jin, and Gu, and Jin Yong became my favorite! In 2005, web novels took off. I started with the ordinary man's The Sword Immortal, then read the pioneering Journey to the Ethereal Realm. From cultivation to fantasy, online games, urban fiction, and history, I still love cultivation most! This list is mostly a way to vent the negative feelings I get from reading, and to record my reading history! Boo
Season One: Recommended Classics in the Siheyuan Era Genre
A curated selection of Republican-era and siheyuan fanfiction. Personally vetted by an experienced reader, guaranteed quality.
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Those who lend money at exorbitant interest rates, from ancient times to the present, deserve to have their entire families die. The protagonist should bury them when he has time! It's a great act of kindness.
This is one of the few accounts that objectively describes a courtyard house; at least the human relationships and social interactions are all within my understanding, which is much better than those dark and gloomy ones. Those courtyard houses that completely disregard logic in order to create conflict are simply indescribable.
Female lead
I'll use this for now; I don't have time to find a picture.
I tried creating an AI composite image.
The female lead, Tu Yunmei, isn't quite familiar with the software yet and is learning. 1 2 3 4 5 Which one is better?
Write whatever you want, let the widow accept whatever she wants, let the neighbors help if they want—as long as it's not mindless, there's no problem.
It's quite good, very detailed, and I spent a lot of time researching. The author has their own ideas and doesn't stereotype traditional courtyard houses. It's not an insult; it feels like a book written by a human. Some books are overrated by saying they were written by AI.
This book is one of the few that is relatively normal and well-researched in the Siheyuan genre. It doesn't involve constant bickering or inexplicable attacks on the protagonist. It's also one of the few that researches real-world situations. The protagonist's actions are based on current and future policies. The people in the Siheyuan are not demonized; they are treated like normal people.
After reading 180 chapters, here's a summary of the strengths: fluent writing, skillful prose, and detailed information. The downsides are that the plot is too bland, the protagonist worries too much about other people's affairs, is wholeheartedly devoted to the people, and doesn't care about his own affairs at all. The female lead doesn't appear in chapter 180, and her name doesn't even appear.
This is too bland, all trivial matters, I'm not going to follow it anymore.
This book is different from the author's previous one, "Lord of a Realm." The previous one was rather bland; after reading 200 chapters, I didn't feel any conflict. This one, after reading a few dozen chapters... Every time the protagonist does something, someone asks him why. And then the protagonist has to answer 😥.