Su Yan, a history student, wakes up in the hellish night of Nanjing in 1937, inhabiting the body of Gu Yunsheng, an agent for the Wang Jingwei puppet regime.
Amid the ruins, he takes up a bloodstained torch of intelligence and ventures alone into Shanghai’s den of demons.
A list Mr. Zhou ordered burned is hidden against his chest, while the Japanese pursuers’ guns are at his throat.
When the darkest hour descends, he shatters the shackles of his identity and ignites a double-edged war
using the puppet government’s secret key to open a path to survival, and the Military Statistics Bureau’s covert network to break the deadly trap.
Alone among a thousand faces, with the embers still glowing; burning himself to light the night, he kindles hope in the dark.
