#No Fake Reviews# Mainly Recommending Old-School Veteran Authors, with Genre-Bending Plots and Wild Ideas. Bookmarked # #非刷单狗#主推老白，反套路，脑洞。存档#

All the books previously on this list are gradually being moved to #Non-Shill Historical Archive# to make room for new ones. If you can't find them, check my profile. In the comments, I only check my own replies. There are some book recommendations there for reference. P.S. Whenever I find a mashup that doesn't show its seams, I give it at least an S-. Why? Because pulling off a mashup takes real writing skill and depth. In web novels, aside from natural talent and imagination, the quality of the writing comes down to skill and depth. So, now that web novels are in a saturated market, please don't recommend books at random in every review section and list comment thread. I get secondhand embarrassment from some books before I even make it through the first three chapters. It's hard enough to write a dream project, and making a living is harder still. Spend your time gaming, reading widely, or even pursuing further study. Build up your knowledge and writing skills. The key is to have material that lets a group of readers connect with you and want to spend money on your work. That's also why I can't stand ordinary-people stories: they lean on the same old points of connection for far too long, and there are so many of them that finding gold is like sifting through filth. It's also hard to find anything genuinely new written within the ordinary-people framework. Ratings, from highest to lowest: S, A, B No C or D, since I don't include those. List rules: five things I won't accept: 1. No more of the same old stuff from the usual suspects. You know who you are, veteran readers. 2. No books with such broken logic that even I can't come up with a plausible explanation, no matter how hard I try. 3. The protagonist can be reckless, stupid, crazy, noble, or even a simp. But absolutely no “humanity deficit” characters. That's the key point! If you don't get it, I can give examples privately. 4. No books that pad out the word count endlessly. 5. No overly derivative formulaic stories.