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High IQ, Political Schemes, and Mind-Bending Plots

Recommend Some Good Books with Basic Common Sense

No school or academy settings, school beauties, goddesses, empresses, harems, male-male pairings, saintly heroines, teams where one person drags along several deadweights, or characters who act less than human and look for someone to own them.

Looking for High-Quality Historical Fiction. No Mindless Power Trips or Brain-Dead Plotting

I want high-quality historical fiction that’s engaging and doesn’t dumb things down or rely on brainless plots. It can be satisfying, but don’t treat readers like idiots. No stories like the one where the protagonist fools Cao Cao’s quartermaster about the provisions from the start, or those where a literati protagonist suddenly has the strength of a tyrant. They’re unoriginal and mindless...

Please Recommend High-Quality Historical or Alternate-History Novels with Highly Intelligent Characters

Anything is fine as long as it isn't brainless and the supporting characters don't suddenly lose all their intelligence.

New Book, Let’s Review Each Other’s Work

Looking for books like Ascending Immortal Tower: Tales of Clouds and Smoke.

The AI-Writing Army Is Coming: Do Ordinary Writers Still Have a Chance?

Recently, a huge wave of AI writers has flooded Fanfan. It's hard to tell whether these AI-written stories are real, and their quality is all over the place. Ordinary writers keep losing their share of the remaining traffic in this flood. What are we supposed to do?

High Intelligence, Cunning Plans, Masterful Schemes, Treating the World Like a Chessboard

Looking for a novel with a protagonist like Murong Li from The Legend of Qin: someone who treats the world as a chessboard and all living beings as pieces, plans everything out, and plays life like a game, but is willing to become a piece on the board himself when necessary.

Has Anyone Written Their Own Novel? Let Me Check It Out!

Are there any? Are there? (￣∇￣) Let me take a peek!

Why Are You Still Writing When Your Book Is Flopping?

Looking for a book like I Transmigrated into a Book with My Cat and Went on a Rampage, While My Cat Went on a Rampage Too. My book is doing so badly that I've completely lost the motivation to update, even though the completion rate was really high early on! A struggling little author's daily heartbreak. Let's help each other out and share what puts readers off.

Novels These Days Are Too Rushed. Hardly Anyone Takes Their Time and Writes Carefully

Don't make me look at any of Tomato's five toxic genres!

New Books Only! The More Underrated, the Better!

Any new book will do. I’m open to anything, especially books that haven’t gotten much attention. It’s hard being a new author, so let’s not leave them writing to an empty room, okay?

Do Nobody Really Read Books by New Authors?

All you little-known authors who’ve just started posting books on Fanqie, gather round!!!

New Authors (Warning! Don't Recommend Works by Big Names.)

I want to discover authors who haven’t received much attention.

New Authors Hoping to Make It Big, Follow and Review Each Other

Looking for books like "The Poison and Martial Arts System".

Real Political Intrigue Fiction: Nothing Shallow or Brain-Burning, That’s My Taste

Reading this will make you wonder whether you have a brain. Highly, highly recommended. Everyone is smart, and the foreshadowing runs throughout the whole story. Anyway, I didn't understand a thing. It's just satisfying from start to finish. All I can say is the author's writing is insanely good.

Any New Books? Anything Between 10,000 and 200,000 Words!

New authors, feel free to showcase your books here. Any genre is welcome.

Power Struggles ♛ Masterminds Behind the Board ♞ Schemes to Rule the World ♝

Looking for novels with a protagonist who’s almost supernaturally clever and skilled at political maneuvering. A System or not is fine, and a female lead or not is fine, but I don’t like protagonists who think with their pants. I’m begging you, great masters!!!

Are There Any Authors Who Seriously and Responsibly Finish Their Stories? I Don't Care If They're Good or Bad!

Any Top-Tier Political Intrigue Novels?

I'm new to the genre. Any top-tier political intrigue novels that are especially good, where even victory comes by a hair's breadth?

Underrated Novels That Are Surprisingly Perfect

Recommend some underrated novels that you personally think are great. Perfect plots, prose, and logic; no dumbed-down characters and nothing frustrating. Please choose carefully.

Nurturing Promising New Books, No Older Books Please

No old books, please. I want to see which new books have potential! Anything the poster has liked or commented on has potential. Give them a try!

Read New Books in Full, Review Each Other’s Work, and Improve Completion Rates

I want something like Transmigrating Across Ten Thousand Years to Find You. New authors, let’s support each other: I’ll read yours if you read mine! I’ll leave a five-star review after I finish!

Political Intrigue, Historical Setting

Are there any grand-scale political intrigue novels like "Scheming for Love" and "The Prosperous Age's Strategist", with court politics and a turbulent martial world, but no domestic infighting?

Looking for Ancient-Style Political Intrigue with a Smart Protagonist Who Plots on a Grand Scale

The protagonist should have their own faction. No System!!!