System, You Can Nag All You Want, but I'm Not Getting Married

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!

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.

It's So Hard to Find a Tomato Novel With Both Great Writing and a Great Plot

Ladies, please stop recommending books! The pandemic is over, and us busy working stiffs don't have time to read! 😭

Looking for Novels with a Naturally Brilliant, Machiavellian Heroine!!!

An Unflinching Heroine Stronger Than the Male Lead: Cold, Detached, and Set in Ancient Times

She's powerful from the start and shows no mercy, not even to her family. If anyone threatens her, she kills them and tortures them mercilessly.

Everyone, Recommend Novels with Political Intrigue, the Martial World, Youthful Ambition, and an Ensemble Cast

Looking for books similar to She Enters the Academy Disguised as a Boy and Drives Countless Classmates Wild.

High-IQ Plots with Tightly Interwoven Twists, Any Genre

I'm a Veteran Reader Looking for Smart Characters, Solid Logic, and Mature Writing 🙏

I'm getting more and more fed up with brainless stories that make no sense. Give us characters with some brains! I'll read any genre as long as it makes sense. 🙏

The Most Badass Heroines on Tomato

The protagonist can be male, too.

How Long Does It Take for a New Writer to Make It? I’ve Been Writing for 54 Days

54 days. I finished my first book on day 45: 320,000 words, writing for 8–12 hours a day. I’m now planning my second book, but nobody’s reading the first one anymore. Is it really that bad? Am I just someone with no talent? (sobbing)

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

Recommend Highly Rated Novels About Brilliant Schemes, Setting Traps, and Breaking Out of Them

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

Brilliant Political Schemes: Always Ten Moves Ahead

I'm looking for books like "The Story of the Hairpin" (Complete in 4 Volumes).

Political Intrigue, Political Intrigue! Any Stories That Test Your Wits? Come and Put Me Through the Wringer ･᷄Ὢ･᷅

I've been a little arrogant lately and need someone to humble me. Come on, make me jealous!!!･᷅ὢ･᷄ Throw your IQ at me as hard as you can!!!(;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)

Looking for Clever Books Full of Strategic Scheming and Mind Games

Political Scheming, Mutual Mind Games, Everyone Is Sharp, With No Absolute Good or Evil, Only Different Loyalties

Looking for books like She Was Reborn as a Treacherous Minister's Daughter, and Played the Role to Perfection. I really want a spirited, heroic female lead, like an ancient female general. The male lead shouldn't become lovesick the moment he meets her, and the supporting characters shouldn't be dumbed down. Everyone should have their own personality. Don't make all the glory...

Looking for Political Scheming with a Female Lead Who Controls the Board: Highly Intelligent, Cold, and Powerful

A political intrigue story where the whole world is a chessboard and the heroine is the mastermind moving the pieces. Any identity is fine, preferably a high-status one. A strong heroine, with or without romance, but no story where everyone acts like an idiot.

Every Twist Leads to Another, and It Gets Better the More You Read

Any Stories With a Scheming, Calculating, Coolheaded Female Lead?

Any stories with a female lead who's skilled at political intrigue, extremely calculating, and calm and collected?

Mind-Bending Novels With High-IQ Characters, Lots of Twists, and Top-Tier Political Scheming. Nothing Dumbed Down

I want to read books similar to Please, Remove Your Armor! The character settings never collapse, and it is truly worth reading.

For Middle-Aged Readers: Smart Characters, No Goody-Two-Shoes, Decisive and Ruthless, Highly Rated

Urban, System, reborn, fantasy, or gaming novels are all fine, as long as they’re good, the characters are smart, and there’s no saintly protagonist. Bring out any books on your shelf that fit the bill!

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.

Looking for High-IQ Political Intrigue

Both the male and female leads are intelligent and strategic, while the supporting characters are loyal and warmhearted.