Kite: The Prequel, the Eight Great Generals of the Military Intelligence Bureau

[A *Kite* fanfiction + Republican-era spy thriller + suspenseful twists + ensemble cast + power struggles] An invisible front line. Eight brothers bound together through life and death. That year, the first “Eight Great Vajras” of the Military Statistics Bureau had just come together. Their eldest, Yue Chongshan, was as steady as a mountain; their second, Shen Jinghong, charged forward with iron resolve; their fifth, Wen Jingran, was a master of codes; their seventh, Ling Canglan, could kill with a single shot... But the man who struck the greatest fear into the hearts of all Shanghai, every Japanese spy, and every traitor was the Military Statistics Bureau’s Sixth Brother, Zheng Yaoxian: a man who greeted everyone with a smile, yet killed without batting an eye. He acted recklessly and bowed to no one. Even Director Dai regarded him with three parts wariness and seven parts reliance. To save their fourth brother, Xu Baichuan, he dared to venture alone into the dragon’s lair. For the sake of brotherhood, he dared to turn his gun on his own side. In the eyes of every Military Statistics Bureau agent, Zheng Yaoxian was a demon crawling out of hell. Only much later, after the turbulent era had passed, did people suddenly realize who had truly held the leash of that “kite” soaring across the blood-red sky, and just how well hidden its line had been... A prequel to *Kite*, a tragic song of the Eight Great Vajras in a world thrown into chaos. “My faith does not need anyone else to understand it. It only needs to burn on in the darkness, to the very end.”