I love, love what you've done with Wen Ruohan's perspective here! The things that immediately occur to him make particular sense for him, and the way he stops and examines those thoughts is incredible, even partway justifying the arrogant confidence he weaves in throughout. I have great intuition, he thinks, and reasons through whatever he's almost intuited to check his work. There's a self delusion potential there, truly intelligent people can rationalize almost anything, but his lived experience probably helps with that. I'd bet 100 years vastly improves intuition! I especially loved the structure of it, the passage where he's like, "let me accept as my premise" is especially dear to me.
The final reveal that he noticed his spy is either incompetent or double dealing was great too, it caught me by surprise but in retrospect shouldn't have.
Thank you! You're not wrong about the potential for self-delusion, but he's both smart and experienced, and that definitely helps him figure things out, or at least get relatively close to guessing other people's motives (and then going from there!) I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment!
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