Any Political Intrigue Novels With Smart Characters? 有没有权谋文，要带脑子的那种书

1. 151 马 Ma Feifei’s Career Ascension 马菲菲职场飞升记 Glass Cliff玻璃悬崖Modern Romance338k WordsCompleted Ma Feifei, the department belle of Bingcheng University of Technology, can’t stand living in a cramped Dongguan urban village with her first love, Xu Hui. After seeing the duplex mansion of Jiang Qingshan, a section chief at a Taiwanese-funded factory, the thought of “saving herself twenty years of hard work” takes root in her mind and grows wild. In the name of love, she gets Xu Hui “transferred” to Foshan, then launches a precise “late-night campaign” to win over Jiang: late-night requests for —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   See if any of these dirty tricks are ones you could use, ones you've used on, or ones you've used on others? [Smirk]

2. 152 县 County Party Secretary’s Aide: Notes from the Grassroots Political Scene 县委秘书：基层仕途笔记 An Ordinary Old Tree平庸老树Urban317k WordsCompleted A Tsinghua prodigy lands a job at the county Party committee office, unaware that the previous secretary just jumped to his death. The Party secretary values him, the office director is wary of him, the deputy director is hostile, and his coworkers wait to see what happens. Beneath the surface, tensions simmer. Harassment, frame-ups, rumors, traps, and temptations of power and sex come one after another. With sheer ability, he turns the tables, exposes falsified achievements, roots out corrupt o 2Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 153 重 Reborn in the World of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer 重生笑傲江湖世界 Author Chen Ran作者陈然Male-Channel Fanfiction740k WordsCompleted The protagonist is reborn in the world of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. What are the Five Mountains Sword Alliance, the Sunflower Manual, or the Dugu Nine Swords compared to doing whatever you please? The martial world is simply a place where people clash with one another. 63Reads—Score—Shelves

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   It features political intrigue, the martial world, the imperial court, conspiracies, sword fights, and love and hate.

4. 154 权 Political Intrigue Crisis: The Power Players Kneel and Call Me Daddy 权谋危机：大佬们跪地喊爸爸 Bai Langjiu白浪玖Urban91k WordsCompleted [Mind games] Xiao Yan, an ordinary college student, gets caught up in a carefully planned murder because of a moment of greed. He snatches File 37 from the target, but the instant he opens the first dossier, his heart pounds violently and a bone-chilling dread engulfs him... Inside the folder are letter after letter of mysterious intelligence, each marked with a cold, precise price. Together, they reveal nearly every secret this city has tried to keep hidden... To escape this deadly whirlpool, X —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Worth a try, okay?

5. 155 天 The Fifth Under Heaven 天下第五， User55303759用户55303759Eastern Fantasy132k WordsOngoing Dark Martial Arts Blood trails snaked across the stone slabs. Diwu Wenren crouched behind a damp pillar in the corridor, gasping for breath. Slanting rain stung their neck, and the clash of weapons rang out in the distance, yet it could not drown out the drumbeat of their heart. Fragments of this body's memories pierced their mind like shards of broken glass. Diwu Wenren, third disciple of the Tianshuang Sword Sect, had used Soul-Severing Powder to poison seventeen fellow disciples over the past —Reads—Score—Shelves

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