Ye Zhen, 28, never imagined that an old ledger from a silk shop would drag him into the blood-red dawn of 1937.
This is no ordinary ledger. It's a “death notice” stained with blood. It lists the undercover agents who will one by one fall beneath the executioner's blade. And he's the first name on the list!
To survive, and to keep the heroes on that list from meeting the same fate, the once meek scholar is forced to wear a thousand faces: a refined businessman navigating the world of wealth and power, a marginal reporter at a newspaper, and a double agent walking along the edge of a blade.
