The Pretender: A Max-Level Translator Reborn as a Shanghai Showgirl

Lin Wan, an elite translator fluent in six languages, transmigrates in a dream and becomes Bailan, a dancer in 1939 Shanghai. In this deadly den of danger, she knows that great talent can be a curse, so she hides her astonishing abilities completely, showing herself only as a down-and-out young woman who speaks fluent English.

Her low-key efforts to survive become the perfect disguise. The meticulous Wang puppet official Ming Lou notices her at once and personally sends her into the heart of the Japanese intelligence service, the Mei Agency, as an “undercover piece” no one can trace.

Here, everyone sees her as a beautiful, harmless “translator vase.” Japanese officers discuss secrets in front of her, while collaborators speak without restraint. No one knows that every conversation in German, Japanese, and Russian becomes top-secret intelligence she passes on to Ming Lou each night.

She and Ming Lou are co-conspirators who turn their backs on the light and embrace the abyss, confidants whose souls resonate but who cannot speak of it. When her final mission arrives, she will tear away every disguise and show all of Shanghai who truly holds the pieces that will decide the game.