In the 29th year of the Republic of China, Shanghai became an isolated island controlled by Japanese invaders and Wang puppets. An inconspicuous ancient book repair shop in a remote alley of the French Concession hid the most dangerous espionage plot. The owner of the shop, Shen Yanci, is an orphan from Peiping with a gentle personality. He only keeps old books and fragments for company, and uses his book editing skills to hide his identity from others.
He clearly belongs to the Shanghai District of the military command, and secretly inherited the legacy of his father, the underground party of the Communist Party of China. The fragments of the Song Dynasty edition entrusted to him by his father before his death concealed the Japanese army's arms deployment in East China and the top-secret list of high-level undercover agents. Qi Yanting, the new team leader of Wang Puppet No. 76, Came to test the situation and pressed forward step by step; Su Mei, the new liaison officer of the CCP, was in danger and the undercurrent of traitors was surging inside. Contact was lost on the line, comrades died, and the crisis surrounded them from all sides.
Shen Yanci walks in the gap between life and death, the character of a scholar and the forbearance of an agent are intertwined. Every decision he makes is wrapped up in his inner struggle and the justice of his family and country. The secrets of the remaining scrolls have not yet been fully solved, the inner ghost has not been uncovered, and the espionage chess game has not yet concluded. This deadly game on an isolated island without gunpowder has just begun.
