The Rose Code: The Chief Agent’s Double Life

Su Wan, the top ace of the international spy organization Night Falcon, returns with her nanoscale “Rose Thorn” weapon. On the surface, she’s a good-for-nothing designer at a jewelry company. In reality, she’s Agent 009, a name that strikes fear into the underworld. One moment, she’s pretending to slip and shatter a priceless gemstone at fashion week. The next, she’s using the laser refracted through its fragments to crack a terrorist group’s keypad lock. By day, her sweet-talking coworker accuses her of plagiarism. By night, she becomes the Midnight Rose and takes down an entire transnational crime syndicate.

When she takes on the “Pandora’s Box” mission, she unexpectedly becomes entangled with the mysterious arms dealer Lu Chenyuan. He holds a limited-edition cigar between his fingers and watches her lazily. “Designer Su, your fragment-laser is more useful than my missiles.” Su Wan sneers and draws her gun. “Mr. Lu, keep staring at my Rose Thorn, and next time it’ll be your bulletproof glass I shoot through.”

As they play their double lives against each other, the good-for-nothing designer’s layers of secret identities are stripped away, memories of past abuse resurface, and the conspiracy of a transnational crime syndicate gradually comes into focus. When Lu Chenyuan’s true identity is revealed, Su Wan realizes that their meeting, which began with a mission, had already been sown with the seed of “protection” in the ruins of an explosion ten years ago. “A rose’s thorns never hurt anyone, unless they try to touch what it protects.”, Su Wan