I Was a Clerk at the Manchukuo Police Headquarters

Name: I Was a Clerk at the Manchukuo Police Headquarters
Author: Watching Yin and Yang with a Smile

我在伪满警察厅当文员

by Watching Yin and Yang with a Smile (笑看阴阳)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 131k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: War & Espionage
Updated: 1mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

Harbin has fallen. Murder lurks in the snow, and every move strikes at the heart.

Lin Chen is a key piece buried deep behind enemy lines.

To outsiders, he seems gentle, easygoing, and casually irreverent. Only he knows that every kindness is a disguise, and every personal attachment is part of the plan.

He dares to wager everything on the riskiest gambits and use the gentlest pieces, winning over desperate assets and prying loose the Japanese army’s most closely guarded secrets. Amid a spy network of light and shadow, he alone controls life, death, victory, and defeat.

But this way of playing, outside the iron laws of the Military Statistics Bureau, repeatedly leaves him teetering on the edge of a cliff.

Bai Lu is a cold blade hanging over his game.

She is ruthless and suspicious, a strict adherent to the rules. Cutting losses is her duty; clearing obstacles is her destiny.

She cannot stand him indulging his weaknesses and rejects his madness of wagering on people’s hearts. Always ready, if the game slips out of control, to sacrifice a piece and sever every tie.

One gentle, one cold; one plots, one kills.

He commands the whole game; she guards the line.

He revives dead ends; she delivers the killing blow when all else fails.

As the Japanese invaders’ trump card for their winter offensive emerges, Chongqing’s secret orders descend from a thousand miles away.

Lin Chen stakes himself and turns the tide, moving his pieces against the odds:

Ironclad rules can be broken, and games built on human feeling can still be won. In times of chaos, there is never just one way to survive.

An intense spy-game standoff between gentle strategy and ironclad rules begins.

The snowstorm is the board, life and death the pieces. One tender thought, and every move becomes a killing blow.

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