The Impostor Sinks the Boat

Huo Chen transmigrated to Shanghai and became a special agent for the Military Statistics Bureau. No script, no all-seeing perspective, and no way of knowing who was a spy or who would die. He had only one hard rule: no one on the list could be wrongly killed. Ming Lou, a powerful figure in Shanghai, was a high-ranking official in the Wang Jingwei puppet government, a Military Statistics Bureau spy, and an underground Communist Party member. He had maintained all three identities without a slip for five years. In a teahouse, Ming Lou raised his cup. "What exactly are you investigating?" "You." Ming Lou smiled. "Hurry up, then. Someone's already got their eye on you." Feng Manna, an intelligence analyst at the Special Higher Police Agency, was reviled across Shanghai as a traitor. Only Huo Chen looked at her without prejudice. She crossed his name off the intelligence report. "You and I are cut from the same cloth." Later, she grabbed him by the tie and pulled him close. "I saved your life. You owe me. If you stay alive, I can stay alive too." An encrypted telegram from Chongqing: Eliminate Ming Lou. Huo Chen clutched the telegram and stood at the docks all night. On one side were his orders; on the other, his own judgment. He put away his gun and turned to leave. "You're a lot harder to kill than I expected." A sunken ship would not cross the river, so the venomous snake came ashore. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is coincidental. Please do not imitate.