Modern office drone Shen Ao wakes up as Shen Zui, captain of Action Team Two in the Action Division of the Chongqing Military Statistics Bureau, a secret service agency in the parallel-world nation of Longguo. His brother-in-law is a former Communist Party member, and Boss Dai uses him without trusting him. It’s a hellish start from the start.
Fortunately, he knows history inside out and is even better at using precise intelligence to predict what’s coming. He cracks major spy cases involving the Japanese invaders one after another, quickly becoming a rising star in the Military Statistics Bureau, one they resent but can’t ignore.
The dangers and hostility from every side leave him walking on eggshells. To stay alive, he makes a bold decision: get close to Boss Dai’s favorite women! Using modern-day “sweet-talking skills” and his handsome looks, he subtly gets Xiang Yingxin, Yu Shuheng, and Chen Hua to occasionally put in a good word for him with Boss Dai. He not only rises through the ranks to join the “Eight Great Guardians,” but also steals access to core intelligence within the bureau that would otherwise have been beyond his reach.
He has no intention of joining any faction. He only wants to use the intelligence as a shield to protect himself, but inadvertently, through Zheng Yaoxian, a top Longguo underground agent codenamed “Kite,” he passes it on to the Communist Party. When an “actor” who only wants to save his own skin crosses paths with the most steadfast of undercover agents, Zheng Yaoxian begins to suspect Shen Zui’s true identity. Their unspoken cooperation sends Shen Zui’s script hurtling in an unexpected direction...
