The Lotus Spy

Name: The Lotus Spy
Author: Author Gu Du Huagui

芙蓉谍

by Author Gu Du Huagui (作者古都华桂)

Status: Completed
Length: 317k Words
Genre: Unknown
Subgenre: Unknown
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The moment the silver scissors pried open the dragon’s vulnerable scales, the fuse began to sputter and spark. Jiang Ruobing stared at the red words on the “Torch Dragon Project” map: “Level Rongcheng on the sixth day of the winter month.” Suddenly, her fingertip brushed half an embroidered hibiscus on the back! As the Military Statistics Bureau’s most ruthless ace, she could kill with a steel needle. But no one knew that inside her Shu embroidery frame, she was using three shades of blue thread to stitch the real names of the “Plum Blossom Formation” agents. The hibiscus jade pendant was proof that four half-siblings, scattered for twenty years, could recognize one another. The copper ladle clanging at the sugar-painting stall on Bluestone Bridge, the brown sugar at Lai Tangyuan, the changing of the guards at the Shaocheng ancestral hall: it would all happen at midnight! “Uncle Kui’s pipe bowl is hiding the medicine that could save your son?” She stopped Kui Yongxin as he delivered the documents and pried open the hidden compartment in his pipe. The instant the intelligence film tumbled out, Kui Yongxin, forced to betray them, turned against his handlers. “Station Chief Jiang hid explosives in the coiled dragon pillar. The fuse diagram... is inside the dragon’s scales!” Amid the flames in the ancestral hall, Station Chief Jiang approached, holding up a silkworm curse: “I staged your father’s arrest! Now, your sister can go with the bomb!” The instant her silver scissors cut the blue fuse, Jiang Ruobing finally understood the secret signal A Xin had embroidered on her cuff... As the bell at West China Dam rang for the third time, she turned and charged toward the ancestral hall on Shaocheng Temple Street... An undercover agent’s blade must be ruthless and her needle precise, because she is protecting more than her faith. She is also protecting that red hibiscus waiting for her amid old Chengdu’s bustling streets!

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