Behind Enemy Lines: I’m Really Not an Ace Spy!

[Shanghai, 1941, during the isolated-island period. The most outlandish spy legend in history is about to begin.]

Zhen Zhibing, a country boy carrying his family's heirloom cleaver and half a cold sweet potato, arrives in the city, thrilled at the chance to apply for a job as a Western restaurant chef. But a mix-up as he disembarks leads the Military Statistics Bureau, the Wang Jingwei regime, and the Japanese military police to mistake him for a top assassin who vanished years ago: “Iron Hammer.”

Faced with threats and temptations from every side, Zhen Zhibing can only rely on his instinct for survival as he walks a knife's edge:

His violent hiccups, brought on by sheer terror, are interpreted by an enemy officer as an advanced Morse code technique for disrupting interrogations.

The sweet potato he tosses away in desperation to save his own skin becomes a secret weapon used to assassinate a Japanese major general!

He only meant to steal a sick-leave note and escape to his hometown to farm, but accidentally walks off with the Japanese army's top-secret “Clear the Countryside Plan.”

The Military Statistics Bureau sees him as their pillar of strength, the Wang Jingwei regime promotes him to director of operations, and the Japanese army names him its number-one enemy.

With five identities and six paychecks, Zhen Zhibing teeters on the brink of a breakdown every day, wanting nothing more than to shout, “I only came here to chop vegetables!”

This is a darkly comic spy thriller in which the protagonist is so afraid of dying that he terrifies every villain.

Watch as this timid lucky charm, through sheer luck and other people's wild imaginations, lies flat his way through a world filled with danger at every turn and becomes the king of spies!