When the consciousness of a twenty-first-century history lecturer travels through time and crashes headlong into the smoke and flames of 1937, a covert struggle to rewrite fate begins! Shen Yanbing, a university lecturer well versed in the history of the War of Resistance, unexpectedly returns to the eve of the Battle of Shanghai, where war is about to erupt. Faced with the Japanese army's invasion and its schemes, he takes history as his blade and wisdom as his shield, resolutely joining the clandestine front.
Beneath the dance floor of the glittering Paramount Ballroom, he deciphers a deadly code hidden on a qipao. In the eerie laboratories of the Japanese army, he seizes biological warfare secrets capable of changing the course of the war. On speeding trains and in narrow alleys, he engages in a deadly contest of wits with the wily Japanese agent Yamamoto Ichiro. Every transfer of intelligence brings him within a hair's breadth of death, and every disguise conceals a hidden threat.
He joins forces with Xu Rujin, a talented young woman from a distinguished family, fighting side by side amid the romance of a blood-soaked era. With Zhao Gang, a veteran underground Party member, he shares a bond that is both mentor and friend, carrying forward the power of faith. From stealing the Japanese army's most confidential battle plans to foiling its devilish plot to deploy biological weapons, Shen Yanbing uses knowledge beyond his time to set off a storm in the very heart of enemy territory.
Yet history's wheel keeps turning. Can he change the fate of countless countrymen without altering history's course? In the darkest hour before dawn, when personal feelings collide with duty to the nation, what choice will he make?
A battle of wits across time, a secret and stirring legend of courage: step into this breathtaking chapter of the War of Resistance and witness the magnificent epic written in the blood of unsung heroes!
