War of Resistance: A Science Prodigy Handcrafts Special Forces Gear

In 1937, Fang Zhiyuan, the pampered son of a wealthy Suzhou family, loses everything in an air raid and ends up in the Taiyue Mountains, where he becomes a new recruit in the Eighth Route Army’s guerrilla forces behind enemy lines.

In those long nights when life is cheap as grass, nobody pays any attention to the fallen young master. Until he makes explosives from fertilizer, takes long-range shots using triangulation, and draws on a tactical instinct far ahead of his time to forge a special forces unit capable of tearing through the Japanese blockade.

In the Taiyue Mountains, Japanese special forces rivals pursue him like a shadow. In Nanjing, his second older brother, embedded in the Plum Blossom Agency, edges closer to exposure. More deadly still, he will one day face his eldest brother, who holds the front line, in a battle to the death.

When the keepsake box can no longer hold all the farewells, Fang Zhiyuan pulls back the bolt and walks into the depths of the night.

In this shattered homeland, someone has to be the first to burn and become that fire.