Shanghai, 1940. The city glows with lights, while turbulent currents swirl beneath the surface.
On the surface, Shen Yanqiu is a reserved, taciturn, and cautious secretary in the Wang Jingwei regime's intelligence office. In secret, he has been undercover for years under the codename “Returning Goose.” During a routine rendezvous, a sudden murder at the train station leaves the contact dead on the spot, with only half a ticket to the opera and a sentence left unfinished.
From that moment on, everything begins to go off course.
Rendezvous at the theater, an incomplete list, intelligence reports repeatedly altered... Shen Yanqiu gradually discovers that this is no simple leak, but a “selection net” laid out long ago. More shocking still, the secret codes known only to his former partner Gu Xingzhou have appeared again.
Can the dead really come back?
Meanwhile, the reporter Lin Jianwei closes in step by step. She seems at once friend and foe, and holds another hidden clue. Various factions struggle in secret, the truth is veiled layer by layer, and every judgment could lead to a way out or into the abyss.
In this city, no one can be trusted completely.
And the most dangerous thing has never been the enemy, but the truth you thought you had already confirmed.
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