The Son Who Came Back

(No System, no transmigration, no special abilities, no rebirth, and an ensemble cast. The fictional story of the Zhou family is woven into real history. Extensive historical sources and images have been gathered to explore the real Shanghai of the Republic of China era together. If you're here for a power fantasy, keep moving. This one's not for you!)

In November 1937, after Shanghai fell, Comrade Zhou Donglin, an underground Communist Party member working for the Hong Kong Industrial and Commercial Daily, was seriously wounded while preparing to return to Shanghai to establish an underground intelligence station. To ensure the mission could be completed, the Jiangsu underground party committee arranged for Comrade Jiang Xiaochuan, a reconnaissance agent from a Red Army unit, to enter the Zhou household under Zhou Donglin's identity. As the missions unfold, Jiang Xiaochuan discovers that none of the people in the Zhou family seem to be who they appear...