In 1938, I Was Doing Business in the Gendarmerie

Cao Meng, 20 years old, is a latent agent of the military command, codenamed "Ksitigarbha". In the occupied area of ​​Shanghai in 1938, he worked as a Japanese translator for the Military Police, but secretly walked a tightrope. In an accident, he activated the blind box system and randomly opened items every day: gold bars, medicines, arms, bugs, bulletproof vests... With the wealth saved by opening the blind box, he took a path that no one expected - to lure the entire gendarmerie into doing business. He sent gold bars to Colonel Yamada, helped middle- and lower-level officers make extra money, and used real money and silver to feed the Japanese one by one as "one of their own." Chiyo, the owner of the izakaya, and Yuki, the wife of the military police major, have also become threads in his intelligence network. While delivering key information to the military commander, he climbed higher and higher under the eyes of the Japanese, from translator to warrant officer, and from warrant officer to headquarters for awards. There is a turmoil in Shanghai, the special higher education courses are eyeing it, and there is also a mole within the military command. Cao Meng got deeper and deeper in this muddy water, using his interests as a net and his identity as a shield. He doesn't want to be a hero, he just wants to live. But in these troubled times, survival itself is the greatest skill.