Espionage: Infiltrating Wu Jingzhong's Office as His Secretary, I Rule Tianjin

Hong Zhi stayed up all night watching The Disguiser thirteen times. When he opened his eyes, he'd become Wu Jingzhong's personal secretary at the Tianjin station, a graduate of the Sino-American program who spoke foreign languages and knew the intelligence business. From the start, he was already in the bed of the Kang family's third concubine. He had no desire to be a hero. He just wanted to cling to Wu Jingzhong's coattails, collecting antiques and approving grain deals for the station chief while weaving the wives' social circle, clubs, and dockside gangs into a web of money.

On the day Yu Zesheng arrived, Hong went to meet him at the station. The night Ma Kui's wife, Zhou Gendi, arrived in Tianjin, Hong took her dancing. Lu Qiaoshan pounded the table and cursed him as a "traitorous lackey," while Wu Jingzhong smiled and handed him a stack of U.S. bills. "Do whatever you need to. You're my man."

The underground dollar business run by Associate Magistrate Qian is coming to light. A naval warehouse belonging to Anderson is hiding a hundred thousand dollars' worth of weapons and opium. Zhang Shaojie, the second young master of the Caobang, is waiting for him to come knocking. Secretary Hong, nicknamed the "Tianjin Cannon King," makes money for the station chief by day, warms the wives' beds at night, and slips messages to the Red Tickets along the way...

Everyone thinks he's just a greedy, womanizing fence-sitter. Only when the shots ring out do they realize that the one who truly knows how to hide is always the man with the most carefree smile.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.