Ashen Night: “This Zichen Palace, This Vast Empire, It’s All Too Cold…”

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?

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.

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

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

I’ve Been Obsessed with Palace-Intrigue Stories Lately. Ladies, Hand Over Your Books!

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.

Ancient-Era Stories With a Brilliant Strategist, Political Intrigue, Mind Games, and Power-Building

Looking for Political Intrigue

I have run out of books. I am begging for a political-intrigue novel, preferably one where everyone has believable intelligence. Otherwise, reading it feels like torture.

Romance Novels Rated 9.5 or Higher

As long as the male and female leads’ characterizations aren’t deal-breakers, I’m good.

Short Angsty Novels

Recommend some short angst-filled stories.

Looking for High-Quality Court Intrigue Novels

Looking for Ancient Settings, Political Intrigue, and a Highly Intelligent Protagonist

A powerful male and female lead, political intrigue, and an ancient setting.

Power Plays, Scheming, and Brainy Strategists

Become my pawn once again. I will win this game, even if the gods themselves stand in my way. I will beat them by half a move.

A Powerful Female Lead Playing the World as Her Game Board and Its People as Her Pieces, or an Assassin With a Secret Identity

Looking for High-IQ Political Intrigue and Mind-Bending Novels

Looking for Books with Wildly Imaginative Powers Developed to Their Limits

Are There Any Relatively Short Angsty Novels?

I want something short.

Palace Intrigue, Pure Palace Intrigue, the Kind That Takes All Your Brainpower

Are there any pure palace-intrigue novels without reborn or transmigrate plots, and without an overpowered protagonist aura? Lately everything has been about transmigration and rebirth, and I’m sick of it.

The Heroine Has Depression and Is Suicidal… An Angsty, Tearjerking Story That’ll Make You Lose 10 Jin

Short Tragic Novels

Important! Important!! Short stories, no more than 200 chapters!! Tragedies!!! The kind that break your heart and leave you feeling so sad!!!!!

Political Schemes, High-IQ Strategizing, Hidden in the Shadows

High-IQ political scheming in an alternate history or an ancient world in another realm.

Looking for Sweet Historical Romance with Court Intrigue and Equally Matched Leads

Please, I Need Some Good Romance Novels With No Dealbreakers

Are there any novels with smart characters, a solid plot, and sensible values?

Any Books About Magnetism-Obsessed Maniacs? I’m So Bored!!!

Looking for books like *The Magnetic-Field Maniac Who Humiliates the Heavens*.

Are There Any Ultra-Heartbreaking Stories? I Love Tragedies

It has to be angsty, the kind that makes you cry your eyes out.