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Stories Where Everyone Is Highly Intelligent, Both the Protagonists and Their Enemies

Whether they’re protagonists or enemies, they should all be highly intelligent. No idiots.

Highly Intelligent, Politically Astute, Decisive, and Not a Goody-Two-Shoes

Intrigue, Schemes, Political Maneuvering, High Intelligence, Master Plans, and Suspense

Any Political Intrigue Novels With Smart Characters?

I'm out of books to read.

Looking for Intrigue-Filled Court Politics and Scheming in Ancient Settings

Looking for books like *I Am Fan Jin: The Splendor of the Ming Dynasty After Passing the Provincial Exam*.

Any Novels with a Highly Intelligent Protagonist Whose Schemes Interlock and Who Plans Everything from Behind the Scenes?

Dynasty-Warring Fantasy with No System: Build a Faction and Strategize for the World

Like *Legend of Ling Tian* and *Iron Cavalry in Troubled Times*

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?

High-IQ Plots with Tightly Interwoven Twists, Any Genre

Alternate History, High-IQ Characters, Military Conflict, and Strategic Showdowns

The protagonist defeats opponents through high intelligence rather than mindlessly overpowering them.

Power! The Kind of Power That Fascinates, Excites, and Makes You Tremble

Looking for Historical Court-Intrigue Novels With Brilliant Schemes and Elegant Prose

Looking for books like *She Wants to Take It Easy, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel (Ascending to the Golden Palace).*

Top-Tier Political Intrigue Novels

Modern or alternate-history settings are both fine, as long as they feature top-tier strategic maneuvering. I just want political intrigue, strategy, and workplace or officialdom drama.

Please, I Need Political Intrigue Novels. No Idiot Protagonists

Are there any good political intrigue novels left? I'm begging you. I don't care if there's a System, as long as the protagonist isn't an idiot.

Looking for Stories of the Martial World, Court Politics, Power Plays, and Alternate History

A traditional wuxia story about a powerful male lead with hidden forces who roams the martial world and falls into a love-hate relationship with the female lead.

Looking for Brainy Novels with Intrigue, Schemes, and Political Maneuvering

The kind you have to read with your brain switched on.

A Highly Intelligent, Strategic Prince in a Historical Novel Like The Nation-Founding Prince Consort

That's it.

Alternate History, Military Strategy, and Political Intrigue!!!

Hypothetical parallel worlds, spanning five thousand years of Chinese history, from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods to the late Qing and early Republic.

Novels About Scheming and Political Intrigue

Anything is fine as long as it isn't set in modern times.

A Scheming Protagonist with Deep-Laid Plans, Like in Sword Snow Stride

Political Intrigue With Everyone Smart and Competent

Less romance, please. Don’t let the leads’ love story ruin a good political intrigue novel.

Give Me a High-IQ Male Lead Who’ll Make My Brain Overheat

Any Good Revenge Stories?

Does Tomato have any good revenge novels? Pure revenge, with no romance plot. No romance. No romance.

Looking for High-IQ Alternate-History Novels

High-IQ characters! I want them to be really smart (but not so smart that I can’t keep up).