Undercover in 1940: From Dance Hall Host to Spy King

In 1940, Shanghai falls to the Japanese. Lu Chen, head waiter at the Paramount Ballroom, is known around Shanghai as the “king of kept men.” Madam Zhao gives him a gold watch, a female Juntong agent asks him for help, and a Japanese spy invites him to dinner. He turns no one away, greeting everyone with a smile. But nobody knows that every heart-pounding encounter with a woman is secretly earning him deadly leverage. A touch earns him a special skill, a stirring of the heart earns him intelligence, and winning someone’s affection earns him a trump card against all odds. While everyone mocks him as the most spineless man at the Paramount, he has already woven a vast net deep within the world of espionage, one capable of swallowing everything. The Japanese Special Higher Police want him dead, Bureau 76 wants to capture him, and Juntong wants to use him. At last, the madams and young ladies who have fallen for him realize they thought they had raised a well-behaved cat, when in truth he was a wolf waiting to devour its prey.