Name: Lurking in the Shadows
Author: Meowtus Talks Fitness

Synopsis

[Military realism, no golden finger, espionage, ensemble cast] Lin Zheng is twenty-seven, born in a coastal city in China and raised on a People’s Armed Police compound. His father was an officer in a PAP mobile division. Growing up surrounded by the military gave him an almost instinctive understanding of what it means to be a soldier. At university, he studied industrial design, also known as product design, in the arts department. He is exceptionally fit and later enlisted.

During his service, he underwent intensive reconnaissance and combat training. After leaving the military, for certain special reasons, he entered the world overseas: Eastern Europe, ports, underground networks, and the shadowy battlefields. Eventually, under a different identity, he joined the United States Marine Corps, where he gradually came into contact with Marine Raiders, overseas special operations, and the truths truly concealed behind modern warfare.

Lin Zheng is not the traditional invincible soldier hero found in power fantasies. He is calm, restrained, and quiet. More often than charging headlong into danger, he is better at observing, lying low, enduring, and making sound judgments.

His greatest strength is not his marksmanship. It is his ability to stay calm under pressure and amid chaos.

Other names

My Days as a U.S. Marine在美国海军陆战队当兵的日子Alternate title on Fanqie

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