Shanghai in Turmoil: Signing In and Stirring Up Trouble in Spy Dramas

After pulling an all-nighter drinking with a friend, modern-day office worker Li Mo wakes up to find he has transmigrated to Shanghai in 1938, in a parallel world that brings together classic spy dramas such as "Lurk", "The Disguiser", "Kite", "Rouge", "Plum Blossom Red Peach", and "Peace Hotel". Even more absurdly, he has become a low-ranking gangster in the Green Gang, of the “Wu” generation, with both parents dead. His master is an elder of the “Tong” generation, and Li Mo himself has only recently joined the gang.

As he stares in bewilderment at the stone-gated houses of the alley, blurting out, “Holy crap, where the hell have you dropped me?” his head suddenly throbs with pain as a flood of memories that aren't his own pours in. A mechanical voice rings out in his mind: [Ding! God-Tier Intelligence Sign-In System activated! Newbie gift pack delivered...]

In an era when trust is a luxury and life is fragile, Li Mo begins an unconventional career in espionage, armed with maxed-out sign-in skills with no side effects and a storage space the size of a football field. He has to deal with the Green Gang's rules and coded slang while trying to survive in Shanghai, where factions vie for power. Even more unbelievably, he gradually encounters Yu Zecheng, Ming Tai, Lan Yanzhi, Zheng Yaoxian, Chen Jiaping, Chen Jiaying, and other protagonists who should belong to separate dramas, all alive in the same era!

When a quick-witted, humorous modern soul collides with the grim, brutal world of espionage, and a Green Gang hoodlum is forced to navigate between the Military Statistics Bureau, the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, the underground Communists, and Japanese and puppet-government agents, one absurd yet heart-pounding story after another unfolds...