Shadows of Jiangning: The Ordinary Class Beats the Huangpu Clique!

After transmigrating to Republican-era Jiangning, Gu Ceyan becomes the lowest-ranking rookie in the military intelligence service.

Armed with criminal investigation expertise a century ahead of its time,

he must contend with the Whampoa faction's disdain, his colleagues' exclusion, and the deadly undercurrents of the spy game.

Where others dismiss reports of hauntings, he spots clues to islanders' rituals;

what seems like an ordinary opera contains secret words the enemy agents use to meet, at least to his ears.

From graveyard offerings to coded signals in the opera world, he can always hear thunder in the silence.

But danger lurks everywhere. Is each person around him a comrade or an enemy?

Is every promotion an opportunity or a trap?

In an age when human life is worth less than grass,

can he rely on his wits and courage to carve out a legendary path of his own?